Zeon Develops World’s First Microorganism-Based Carbon Nanotube Degradation Method

Zeon Corporation has in collaboration with a research group led by Professor Katsutoshi Hori of the Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Tokai National University Organization, and a Nagoya University venture company, Friend Microbe, developed the world’s first new method to efficiently degrade carbon nanotubes (CNT) using microorganisms. Until now, it has been believed that CNTs, an inorganic material composed…