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13 December 2024

By: E.Fuzellier

We're recruiting - Design engineer

We're recruiting - Design engineer
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15 April 2025

By: G. Paës

Binderless particleboards from steam exploded woody biomass

Wood particleboards are commonly used in the furniture and building sectors and usually contain binders with formaldehyde-based synthetic resins, which raises health and environmental concerns. Pretreatment of wood such as steam explosion allows to modify its chemical and physical structure in order to produce more environmentally friendly binderless particleboards with good bonding-strength and dimensional stability, with an easy processing.
Début des prélèvements sur site Bordelais du projet CANETE

Launched in February 2024, the CANETE project successfully kicked off field sampling in the first week of April 2025. The sampling team of the FARE lab, Pascal Thiébeau and Pierre Verjans, sampled soil and forest litters on the Pierroton forestry platform in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine area in france, with the help of a team of 5 on-site colleagues.

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To reduce the economic and ecological costs of paper manufacturing, research has focused on genetic engineering to help separate lignin from cellulose. One way to improve wood delignification is to genetically modify lignin to change the subunit composition and the type of bonds involved in the polymer. Among these modifications, downregulation of the cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase (CAD1) gene has shown interesting results, with easier delignification.

Design of a Peroxidase-Based Gas Diffusion Electrode for Bioelectroenzymatic Applications

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Uncovering the mechanisms and tools shaped by Nature to improve the use of renewable carbon and to contribute to sustainable development: this is the ambition of FARE laboratory (Fractionation of AgroResources and Environment).

Our mission, inside the network of our INRAE and URCA partner labs, is focused on three key points of the biological / technological transformation of lignocellulosic plant biomass, for non-food usages:

- follow the degradation of lignocellulose (culture residues, litters) by soil micro-organisms in the field, in order to maintain fertility and to favor ecosystem services necessary for a sustainable agriculture (input management, carbon and nitrogen cycles);

- fractionation of lignocellulose by enzymatic or microbial biotechnological processes, to produce chemicals of interest for chemistry and energy, while respecting the green chemistry concepts (2G bioethanol, sugar-based surfactant,…);

- using agro-sourced fibres and polymers to design innovative nanostructured materials with new optical properties (protective films and coatings) and composite materials with high technical and environmental performances (light, recyclable, biodegradable,…).

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Dr Gabriel Paës, Director of FARE