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New insights into radial expansion of plants can boost biomass production
Feb 11, 2019 (SPX)
The tissues responsible for this radial expansion are the vascular tissues which transport water and nutrients around plants and are visible as concentric circl...
UD researchers synthesize renewable oils for use in lubricants
Feb 08, 2019 (SPX)
And yet, as essential as they are to our way of life, lubricants leave a heavy environmental footprint. Common lubricants, oils, greases and emollients typicall...
Scientists discover a better way to make plastics out of sulfur
Feb 08, 2019 (SPX)
Sulfur is an abundant chemical element and can be found as a mineral deposit across the world. It is also a waste product from the refining of crude oil and gas...
Millions of tons of plastic waste could be turned into clean fuels, other products
Feb 07, 2019 (SPX)
"Our strategy is to create a driving force for recycling by converting polyolefin waste into a wide range of valuable products, including polymers, naphtha (a m...
Strategies for growing biomass for fuel can have multiple benefits
Feb 04, 2019 (SPX)
"It is difficult to make a biofuel that actually has environmental benefits," said Tilman, a faculty member in the Bren School of Environmental Science and Mana...
British air base ready to run on green energy from biomass
Feb 01, 2019 (UPI)
Defense Minister Tobias Ellwood ceremonially opened the facility, built and operated by Future Biogas, in Swaffham, England, on Thursday. The plant will make el...
A powerful catalyst for electrolysis of water that could help harness renewable energy
Jan 28, 2019 (SPX)
However, electrochemically splitting water molecules requires an overpotential--an excess voltage that has to be applied in addition to the theoretical voltage ...
From toilet to brickyard: Recycling biosolids to make sustainable bricks
Jan 23, 2019 (SPX)
Biosolids are a by-product of the wastewater treatment process that can be used as fertiliser, in land rehabilitation or as a construction material. Around 30% ...
Scientists turn carbon emissions into usable energy
Jan 21, 2019 (SPX)
Published This breakthrough has been led by Professor Guntae Kim in the School of Energy and Chemical Engineering at UNIST in collaboration with Professor Jaeph...
Researchers create 'shortcut' to terpene biosynthesis in E. coli
Jan 17, 2019 (SPX)
Terpenes are a large class of naturally occurring molecules that are useful in industries ranging from pharmaceuticals and cosmetics to food and biofuels. In na...
Yeast makes ethanol to prevent metabolic overload
Jan 08, 2019 (SPX)
Cells use nutrients like glucose to make new cells. But sometimes, some of these nutrients are wasted. For example, the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which is...
Green catalysts with Earth-abundant metals accelerate production of bio-based plastic
Jan 08, 2019 (SPX)
It should be no surprise to most readers that finding an alternative to non-renewable natural resources is a key topic in current research. Some of the raw mate...
Tel Aviv researchers develop biodegradable plastic from seawater algae
Jan 01, 2019 (UPI)
"Our new process produces 'plastic' from marine microorganisms that completely recycle into organic waste," said Alexander Golberg, of Tel Aviv University's Por...
A lung-inspired design turns water into fuel
Dec 27, 2018 (SPX)
The act of inhaling and exhaling is so automatic for most organisms that it could be mistaken as simple, but the mammalian breathing process is actually one of ...
Greener days ahead for carbon fuels
Dec 19, 2018 (SPX)
Now a discovery by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Joint Center for Artificial Photosynt...
Obtaining polyester from plant oil
Dec 17, 2018 (SPX)
A range of theoretical concepts and laboratory processes must be devised and tested to resolve challenges and problems arising in connection with the natural ma...
IIT researchers show how plants can generate electricity to power LED light bulbs
Dec 17, 2018 (SPX)
Fabian Meder, Barbara Mazzolai and their coworkers at IIT discovered that living plants are literally "green" power source, which may become one of future's ele...
Low-cost catalyst boosts hydrogen production from water
Dec 17, 2018 (SPX)
In addition to being a key ingredient in everything from fuel to fertilizers, hydrogen has great potential as an energy storage medium. The idea would be to use...
Researchers use jiggly Jell-O to make powerful new hydrogen fuel catalyst
Dec 17, 2018 (SPX)
The catalyst, which is composed of nanometer-thin sheets of metal carbide, is manufactured using a self-assembly process that relies on a surprising ingredient:...
WSU researchers reverse engineer way pine trees produce green chemicals worth billions
Dec 13, 2018 (SPX)
Mark Lange and colleagues in the Institute for Biological Chemistry literally dissected the machinery by which loblolly pine produces oleoresin. Before the arri...
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