DuPont's 'Unique' Seaweed Venture Nets DOE Cash

The New York Times
By DINA FINE MARON of Greenwire
Published: November 25, 2009

Seaweed holds promise as more than an ingredient in a purifying face mask or a maki roll.

So say researchers at E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., which alongside Seattle-based Bio Architecture Lab (BAL) has secured $9 million from the Department of Energy to explore seaweed's potential as a feedstock for biobutanol, an advanced biofuel.

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