Dr. Victor S. Lin

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  Contact: Victor Linvsylin@iastate.edu515-294-3135Iowa State University
  
  Iowa State chemist hopes startup company can revolutionize biodiesel production
  
  Victor Lin, an Iowa State University professor of chemistry, is using nanotechnology and chemistry to improve biodiesel production.Click here for more information.
  
  AMES, Iowa - Line up 250 billion of Victor Lin's nanospheres and you've traveled a meter.
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  "This technology could change how biodiesel is produced," said Victor Lin, an Iowa State University professor of chemistry, a program director for the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory and the inventor of a nanosphere-based catalyst that reacts vegetable oils and animal fats with methanol to produce biodiesel."This could make production more economical and more environmentally friendly."
  
  Lin is working with Mohr Davidow Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, Calif., the Iowa State University Research Foundation and three members of his research team to establish a startup company to produce, develop and market the biodiesel technology he invented at Iowa State.
  
  The company, Catilin Inc., is just getting started in Ames.Catilin employees are now working out of two labs and a small office in the Roy J. Carver Co-Laboratory on the Iowa State campus.The company will also build a biodiesel pilot plant at the Iowa Energy Center's Biomass Energy Conversion Facility in Nevada.
  
  Lin said the company's goal over the next 18 months is to produce enough of the nanosphere catalysts to increase biodiesel production from a lab scale to a pilot-plant scale of 300 gallons per day.
  
  Lin will work with three company researchers and co-founders to develop and demonstrate the biodiesel technology and production process.
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  Lin said the catalyst has been under development for the past four years.
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  As the company grows and demonstrates its technology, Lin said company leaders will have to decide whether the company will become a catalyst company, will work with partners to develop biodiesel plants or will produce its own biodiesel.
  
  Even though he expects plenty of worldwide business for the new company, Lin said he'll continue to work as an Iowa State professor.
  
  "I'm not going to quit my day job," he said.
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  Victor Lin, Chemistry515-294-3135vsylin@iastate.edu

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  "There was some interest in converting syngas into ethanol during the first oil crisis back in the 70s," said Ames Lab chemist and Chemical and Biological Science Program Director Victor Lin.
  
  "The problem was that catalysis technology at that time didn't allow selectivity in the byproducts.They could produce ethanol, but you'd also get methane, aldehydes and a number of other undesirable products."
  
  A catalyst is a material that facilitates and speeds up a chemical reaction without chemically changing the catalyst itself.
  
  When Lin studied the chemical reactions in syngas conversion, he found that the carbon monoxide molecules that yielded ethanol could be "activated" in the presence of a catalyst with a unique structural feature.

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  The research team also includes Robert C. Brown, the Iowa Farm Bureau Director of Iowa State's Bioeconomy Institute, an Anson Marston Distinguished Professor in Engineering and the Gary and Donna Hoover Chair in Mechanical Engineering; Victor Lin, a professor of chemistry, director of Iowa State's Center for Catalysis, director of Chemical and Biological Sciences for the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory and founder of Catilin Inc., an Ames-based company that produces catalysts for biodiesel production; Samuel Jones, an assistant scientist for the Center for Sustainable Environmental Technologies; plus seven graduate students and two post-doctoral researchers.

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  The Iowa State research team is led by Victor Lin, an associate professor of chemistry.
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  It's a tedious process that dissolves the catalysts so they can't be used again, Lin said.
  
  So Lin and his research team started looking for technologies that would create an easier, more efficient and more economical process.They were also hoping to find technologies that would effectively make biodiesel out of raw materials such as used restaurant oils and animal fats - materials that are much cheaper than soy oil, but also contain free fatty acids that can't be converted to biodiesel by current production methods.
  
  Lin has developed a nanotechnology that accurately controls the production of tiny, uniformly shaped silica particles.

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  The driving force behind this combination of nanotechnology and biofuels is Ames Laboratory Chemical and Biological Sciences Program Director Victor Lin. Since 2000, Lin, who is also a chemistry professor at Iowa State University, has been leading research on using nanotechnology to dramatically change the production process of biodiesel. This successful technology led Lin to found Catilin one and a half years ago.

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  Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University offer valuable research capabilities and resources that will play a key role in this exciting collaboration with Catilin," Victor Lin, the Chemical and Biological Science program director at the Ames Laboratory, said.

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  Delivering a dose of chemotherapy drugs to specific cancer cells without the risk of side affects to healthy cells may one day be possible thanks to a nanoscale drug delivery system being explored by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory.Using tiny silica particles call mesoporous nanospheres to carry drugs inside living cells, Ames Laboratory chemist Victor Lin is studying different methods to control whether or not the particle delivers its pharmaceut ... click link for more info.

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  "This technology could change how biodiesel is produced," says Victor Lin, an ISU professor of chemistry."This could make production more economical and more environmentally friendly."He is a program director for the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory and the inventor of a nanosphere-based catalyst that reacts vegetable oils and animal fats with methanol to produce biodiesel.
  
  Line up 250 billion of Victor Lin's nanospheres and you've traveled a meter.
  ...
  Lin is working with Mohr Davidow Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, Calif., the ISU Research Foundation and three members of his research team to establish a startup company to produce, develop and market the biodiesel technology he invented at Iowa State.
  
  The company, Catilin Inc., is just getting started in Ames.Catilin employees are now working out of two labs and a small office in the Roy J. Carver Co-Laboratory on the ISU campus.The company will also build a biodiesel pilot plant at the Iowa Energy Center's Biomass Energy Conversion Facility in Nevada.
  
  Lin said the company's goal over the next 18 months is to produce enough of the nanosphere catalysts to increase biodiesel production from a lab scale to a pilot-plant scale of 300 gallons per day.
  
  Lin will work with three company researchers and co-founders to develop and demonstrate the biodiesel technology and production process.
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  Lin said the catalyst has been under development for the past four years.
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  As the company grows and demonstrates its technology, Lin says company leaders will have to decide whether the company will become a catalyst company, will work with partners to develop biodiesel plants or will produce its own biodiesel.Even though he expects plenty of worldwide business for the new company, Lin says he'll continue to work as an ISU professor."I'm not going to quit my day job," he says.

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  The scientists are Kan Wang, professor of agronomy and director of the Center for Plant Transformation, Plant Sciences Institute; Victor Lin, professor of chemistry and senior scientist, U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory; Brian Trewyn, assistant scientist in chemistry; and Francois Torney, formerly a post-doctoral scientist in the Center for Plant Transformation and now a scientist with Biogemma, Clermond-Ferrand, France.
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  Wang and Lin intend to continue their collaboration to further develop the technology and its applications in plants.

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  The driving force behind this combination of nanotechnology and biofuels is Ames Laboratory chemical and biological sciences program director Victor Lin. Since 2000, Lin, who is also a chemistry professor at Iowa State University , has been leading research on using nanotechnology to dramatically change the production process of biodiesel. This successful technology led Lin to found Catilin one and a half years ago.

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