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 her first courses at the Collège de France in March, views invasive exotic plants as tools for pollution control and identifies chemical reagents of great interest in them. Among them is Japanese knotweed, which is rampant in the Upper Rhine region and the Greater Region; it is capable of recycling the precious metal palladium.
Voisin-Nachbarn Digital Magazine
January 8, 2026