MaxCREATE SCCB

Singapore Max Planck Alliance for Sustainable Chemical Conversion of Biomass

The Singapore Max Planck Alliance brings together the Max Planck Society and leading Singapore partners to develop joint research programmes and long-term scientific collaboration.

This programme targets emissions reductions on dual fronts: aviation fuel demand and biomass disposal, by enabling sustainable feedstock utilisation and circular biomass valorisation. Beyond jet fuels, SCCB will advance carbon-reduction pathways that strengthen Singapore’s energy resilience and broaden decarbonisation efforts.

This is a joint research initiative between the Max Planck Society (MPS), represented by MPICI (https://www.mpikg.mpg.de/en) and MPICEC (https://www.cec.mpg.de/en), and its Singapore partner institutions – Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE), Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and National University of Singapore (NUS).

This research project (SCCB) is part of the CREATE Thematic Programme in Decarbonisation and is supported by the National Research Foundation, Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore under its Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) programme.

 

Mission and Vision

SCCB aims to harness regional high-volume low-value resources for the production of aviation fuels and platform chemicals.

The complex endeavour builds on three pillars:

  • Improved fractionation: We aim to design solvent systems with improved fractionation ability.
  • Better catalysts: We work at developing and benchmarking highly selective catalysts with long-term stability for the upgrading of biomass derived streams.
  • Accelerated Scale-up: We combine experimental data with physics-informed machine learning to accelerate and derisk scale-up.

Our People

Principal Investigators

Prof. Chen Xiaodong
Nanyang Technological University
Prof. Peter H. Seeberger
Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces		Prof. Walter Leitner
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion

Prof. Ning Yan
National University of Singapore		Prof. Shuzhou Li
Nanyang Technological University		Prof. Gao Cong
Nanyang Technological University


Research Staff

Li Zhuyun
Programme Manager
Nanyang Technological University
Jakob B. Wolf
Group Leader
Nanyang Technological University
Ningyu Huang
Research Fellow
Nanyang Technological University
Jiawei Li
Research Fellow
Nanyang Technological University
Ranjit Atapalkar
Research Fellow
Nanyang Technological University
Sikai Wang
Research Fellow
National University of Singapore
Yifan Zan
Research Fellow
Nanyang Technological University
Yingqiang Song
Research Fellow
Nanyang Technological University
 
Zhenhua Zhao
Research Fellow
Nanyang Technological University
Shuai Liu
Research Assistant
Nanyang Technological University
Rayner Ng
Project Officer
Nanyang Technological University
 


Graduate Students

  
Huaqing Zhang
Ph.D. Candidate
Nanyang Technological University
Jing Xiang Ng
Ph.D. Candidate
Nanyang Technological University
  

 

Research Areas

The group harnesses automated flow experimentation for biomass research, catalyst testing and reaction development to generate reusable databases for data-driven chemistry and seamless upscaling.


Fractionation

Catalytic conversion

 Upscaling

 


Contact Us

Please contact us at

Singapore Max Planck Alliance for Sustainable Chemical Conversion of Biomass 
1 CREATE Way
Research Wing #01-07/08
Singapore 138602


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