When invasive species recycle valuable molecules
Lorraine-based researcher Claude Grison, who heads the ChimEco laboratory for bio-inspired chemistry and ecological innovations in Montpellier and will begin teaching at the Collège de France in March, views invasive exotic plants as agents of environmental remediation and identifies chemical reagents of great interest within them. Among them, Japanese knotweed, which is rampant in the Upper Rhine and the Greater Region, is capable of recycling precious palladium.
Voisin-Nachbarn Digital Magazine
January 8, 2026