“我们需要开发新的加工技术，羟甲基糠醛还是一种建筑材料，能够代替例如聚对苯二甲酸乙二酯(PET)这种制作可乐瓶子所需要的塑料，”他指出。

"We need to develop new process technologies, and HMF is a building block that can replace products like PET, a plastic used for soda bottles," he notes.

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虽然其他研究者之前曾经将果糖转化成为羟甲基糠醛，但是杜米斯克的研究小组进行了一系列改进，提高了羟甲基糠醛的产出量，并且其中提取过程更加简单。

Although other researchers had previously converted fructose into HMF, Dumesic's research group made a series of improvements that raised the HMF output, and also made the HMF easier to extract.

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一旦制成羟甲基糠醛后，进一步将其转化成塑料或柴油燃料就会相当容易。

Once made, HMF is fairly easy to convert into plastics or diesel fuel.

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