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Iowa State, Ames Lab Researcher Hunts for Green Catalysts

March 7, 2011

L. Keith Woo of Iowa State University and the Ames Laboratory is looking for cleaner, greener and cheaper catalysts. Woo and his research group are turning to biology for some ideas. And they're developing high-throughput approaches to quickly test a reaction using up to a hundred trillion different catalysts. Full Story

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