Fumaric acid is a versatile dicarboxylic acid with applications spanning the food, pharmaceutical, and polymer industries. Traditionally produced from petrochemical processes, recent endeavours have ...

As plastic waste continues to build up faster than it can decompose, the need for biodegradable solutions is evident. Previously, Professor Yutaka Amao and his team at Osaka Metropolitan University’s ...

Researchers at Osaka Metropolitan University are making significant progress toward the sustainable production of fumaric acid, a component of biodegradable plastics like polybutylene succinate, ...

BASF is working with three German universities to ferment sugar and carbon dioxide into fumaric acid with the bacterium Basfia succiniciproducens. Fumaric acid, used as a food acidulant and in ...