Fen-Tair Luo
Institute of Chemistry Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Biography
Fenâ€Tair Luo is currently a research fellow at the institute of chemistry in academia sinica, Taiwan. In 1984, he received PhD degree of chemistry from Purdue University under the guidance of professor Eiâ€ichi Negishi, who won the nobel prize of chemistry in 2010. He also did one-year postdoc work with Professor Carl Djerassi, who was the first one to invent the female oral contraceptive pill in the world. He is now engaging in the molten salt technology to carbonize biomass, so far he has received the patent of supertorrefaction of biomass from six countries.