Publications by Lorenz Perry Manker

Aldehyde-Stabilization Strategies for Building Biobased Consumer Products around Intact lignocellulosic Structures

Jeremy Luterbacher, Songlan Sun, Lorenz Perry Manker

Dwindling fossil resources and their associated environmental concerns have increased interest in biobased products. In particular, many approaches to convert lignocellulosic biomass into small-molecule building blocks are being explored via thermal, chemi ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2025

Additive-Enhanced PAX Polyesters for Industrial Processing and Increased Longevity

Jeremy Luterbacher, Lorenz Perry Manker, Maxime Alexandre Clément Hedou

American Chemical Society (ACS)2025

Method for preparing an acetal-protected sugar

Jeremy Luterbacher, Lorenz Perry Manker, Maxime Alexandre Clément Hedou

Method for preparing an acetal-protected sugar involving the step of reacting a diol group of a sugar selected from the group consisting of an aldopentose and an aldohexose with one or two compounds of formula (Ia) and/or (Ib) in the presence of a homogeno ...

2025

Method for preparing an at least partially acetal-protected sugar

Jeremy Luterbacher, Songlan Sun, Lorenz Perry Manker, Anastasiia Komarova

The present invention relates to a method for preparing an at least partially acetal-protected sugar involving the step of reacting a sugar or a sugar derivative selected from the group consisting of an aldopentose, an aldohexose, an aldopentoside and an a ...

2024

Performance polyamides built on a sustainable carbohydrate core

François Maréchal, Véronique Michaud, Jeremy Luterbacher, Holger Frauenrath, Lorenz Perry Manker, Maxime Alexandre Clément Hedou

Sustainably producing plastics with performance properties across a variety of materials chemistries is a major challenge-especially considering that most performance materials use aromatic precursors that are still difficult to source sustainably. Here we ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Acetal-Stabilized Carbohydrates as Novel Platform Molecules for Renewable Polymer Production

Lorenz Perry Manker

To address the rising demand for plastics, it is essential to create new types of polymers that are both highly recyclable and emit minimal amounts of greenhouse gases. These plastics should be derived from readily available, renewable feedstocks. Such eff ...

EPFL2023

Tuning the Mechanical Properties of Poly(butylene xylosediglyoxylate) via Compounding Strategies

Véronique Michaud, Jeremy Luterbacher, Lorenz Perry Manker, Maxime Alexandre Clément Hedou, Adrien Julien Demongeot

Producing high-performance materials from renewable carbon at high efficiency and ensuring a sustainable end-of-life scenario can notably reduce the CO2 footprint of the plastics industry. A recent example of such a material is poly(butylene xylosediglyoxy ...

Amer Chemical Soc2023

Current strategies for industrial plastic production from non-edible biomass

Jeremy Luterbacher, Jean Thierry C Behaghel de Bueren, Lorenz Perry Manker, Stefania Bertella

Realistically replacing petroleum-based plastics will require efficient routes to performance polymers using scalable processes from abundantly available lignocellulosic biomass. We surveyed academic and patent literature for processes in the latest stages ...

2023

From Non-edible Biomass to Performance Thermoplastics with Sustainable End-of-life

Jeremy Luterbacher, Lorenz Perry Manker

2022

Energy and techno-economic analysis of bio-based carboxylic acid recovery by adsorption

Lorenz Perry Manker

Recent works have established bio-based carboxylic acids as adaptable precursors to renewable biofuels and chemicals. However, the separation of carboxylic acids is a major energy and cost driver, accounting for 20-40% of the entire processing cost. Improv ...

2021