UT–ORNL Governor’s Chair for Biorefining Art Ragauskas and team are investigating new methods for reclaiming and reusing plastic waste.

Art Ragauskas’ research team discovered that the suppression of pectic gene in switchgrass resulted in the reduction of hemicellulose molecular […]

Arthur Ragauskas, UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair for Biorefining, and his team lead a breakthrough study in biofuels that has been celebrated by his peers.

Lignin valorization is hindered by the heterogeneity of its complex structures and variability of biomass feedstocks. Fractionation of lignin can […]

This research from Art Ragauskas’ team is focused on cross-linked nanocelluloses, poly(methyl vinyl ether-co-maleic acid) (PMVEMA) and poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) […]

Art Ragauskas, UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair, was named one of the university’s top cited researchers for the 2018-19 school year.

News regarding several of UT’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering faculty members.

UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair Art Ragauskas and other researchers are exploring ways to generate a profit from lignin, which is currently regarded as waste.

UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair Art Ragauskas received AIChE’s prestigious “Program Committee’s Professional Achievement Award for Innovations in Green Process Engineering.”

Research by UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair for Biorefining Arthur Ragauskas will be included in the Fall/Winter 2016 edition of Quest Research Magazine.