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Iowa State's Robert C. Brown Elected to National Academy of Inventors
December 13, 2023
AMES, Iowa, Dec. 13 -- Iowa State University issued the following news release:

Robert C. Brown, an Iowa State University engineer who has 26 U.S. patents, has been elected a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

Many of Brown's inventions involve the thermochemical conversion of biomass such as corn stalks or wood chips into a liquid bio-oil for energy and a biochar for fertilizer. One such invention changed how a technology called fast pyrolysis prov . . .

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