French Researcher Honored for Work in Metal Extraction Using Plants

On June 21, in Munich, the European Patent Office (EPO) awarded one of its annual European Inventor Awards to a French female inventor. This is the first time since 2019. Claude Grison, a researcher in eco-chemistry at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), received the award in the Research category for successfully extracting and reusing metal elements from plants grown in contaminated soil.“I wanted to give phytoremediation technologies a new dimension…”

Environment News
June 27, 2022

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