DuPont and Bio Architecture Lab (http://www.ba-lab.com/) recently were awarded a $9 million matching grant from ARPA-E for a third generation biofuels research program to determine if sugars from macroalgae — or seaweed — can be efficiently converted to biobutanol. The project will complement the efforts under way in the Butamax™ joint venture to commercialize a multi-generational pipeline of isobutanol technologies from grain and cellulosic biomass that is the result of extensive research and technology investment by DuPont and BP.

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