In the second stage, lactic-acid molecules are linked into long chains, or polymers, in chemical-reaction vessels, to produce PLA. What Dr Lee and his colleagues have succeeded in doing, as they report in Biotechnology and Bioengineering, is to produce PLA directly, in a one-stage process, in bacteria.
Born in 1940, he joined the PLA in 1955 and began publicly exhibiting his artwork in 1958.
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ConAgra and DuPont tried a PLA venture in the mid-1990s, but failed to get the biochemistry right in early tries.
The panel Pla was referring to was the one that met exactly one month ago today born out of necessity after the Pla family, unsuccessful in their attempt to reason with the Archdiocese to reconsider their ban, started a petition on Change.org to garner public support.
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In addition, the requirements of the PLA empower users to control access to user or device data, and require user consent before user or device data can be collected.
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The heads operate along the X and Y axes, while the build platform (generally heated in the case of ABS and unheated for PLA) moves downward, allowing the glue gun-like extruders to build up the thin layers of plastic.
This month the site began cranking out the first batches of the polymer, called polylactic acid, or PLA, ready to be used in everything from clothing to carpets to the crinkly, thin films used to wrap candy and compact discs.
Although PLA has been around for decades, it is only in recent years that advances in production techniques, particularly by Cargill, a big American agricultural group, have made it feasible to produce the material commercially.
Cargill's NatureWorks has a four-year-old factory in Blair, Neb. that can turn out 300 million pounds of PLA plastic each year, but it is said to run at only half that capacity.
Enjoy the relaxed, open-air atmosphere of a 1920s Thai home at the Issaya Siamese Club, where local celebrity chef Ian Kittichai turns out dishes seasoned with herbs grown in the house garden, such as red chilli-glazed seabass (pla aob prik) and jasmine flower flan (kanom dok mali).
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