A team of Virginia Tech researchers has discovered a way to extract large quantities of hydrogen from second most abundant plant sugar xylose. This new method of producing hydrogen releases almost no zero greenhouse gasses, and does not require costly or heavy metals. The research is led by the associate professor Y.H. Percival Zhang and published recently online in Angewandte Chemie, International Edition. Jonathan R. Mielenz, group leader of the bioscience and technology biosciences division at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, who is familiar with Zhang’s work but not affiliated with this project, said this discovery has the potential to… Login to continue

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