Amsterdam spin-out Photanol is partnering with industry to develop new chemical building blocks.
Photanol, a cleantech spin-out of Amsterdam University, is entering a collaboration agreement with AkzoNobel, a Dutch multinational specialising in chemicals. The goal of the new partnership will be to create eco-friendly chemical building blocks that could replace fossil fuel.
The spin-out was founded in 2008 and is based on research by the Molecular Microbial Physiology group at the university’s Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, led by Klaas Hellingwerf and Joost Teixeira de Mattos. The technology uses light to…
