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Scientists discover how to protect yeast from damage in biofuel production
Aug 10, 2018 (SPX)
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and several Department of Energy laboratories have identified two changes to a single gene that can make th...
Taming defects in nanoporous materials to put them to a good use
Aug 09, 2018 (SPX)
A team led by Dr Marco Taddei, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Fellow at Swansea University, is investigating how the properties of metal-organic frameworks, a c...
Forests crucial for limiting climate change
Aug 08, 2018 (SPX)
Biomass Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) power stations are designed to produce energy and store the resulting carbon dioxide (CO2) in bedrock dee...
Key gene to accelerate sugarcane growth is identified
Aug 08, 2018 (SPX)
The culm's sugar storage capacity is physically limited, restricting the volume of sucrose and biomass that can be obtained from the crop for sugar and second-g...
Soil bugs munch on plastics
Aug 02, 2018 (SPX)
After harvest, it often is impossible for farmers to re-collect the entire films, particularly when films are only a few micrometers thin. Film debris then make...
Industrial breakthrough in CO2 usage
Jul 30, 2018 (SPX)
The product is methionine, which is used as an essential amino acid, particularly in animal feed, on a large scale. This newly developed enzymatic process could...
Team shatters theoretical limit on bio-hydrogen production
Jul 27, 2018 (SPX)
Propelled by a genetic engineering technique that presents bacteria with a simple choice - adapt or die - research from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln just ...
Hydrogen and plastic production offer new catalyst with a dual function
Jul 27, 2018 (SPX)
During the study, the team surrounding Dr Stefan Barwe and Prof Dr Wolfgang Schuhmann from the Bochum-based Centre for Electrochemical Sciences cooperated with ...
Splitting water: Nanoscale imaging yields key insights
Jul 19, 2018 (SPX)
Their study, "Nanoscale Imaging of Charge Carrier Transport in Water Splitting Anodes", has just been published in Nature Communications. The lead researchers w...
Feeding plants to this algae could fuel your car
Jul 19, 2018 (SPX)
The research shows that a freshwater production strain of microalgae, Auxenochlorella protothecoides, is capable of directly degrading and utilizing non-food pl...
Carbon dioxide-to-methanol process improved by catalyst
Jul 12, 2018 (SPX)
Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations are increasing and climate change is becoming a worldwide concern requiring global efforts to reduce carbon dioxide em...
Biorefineries will have only minimal effects on wood products and feedstocks markets
Jul 12, 2018 (SPX)
The products from biorefineries can be used to replace some fossil-based equivalents. Biorefineries can make better use of available biomass, for example using ...
Finding the right balance for catalysts in the hydrogen evolution reaction
Jul 11, 2018 (SPX)
A collaboration led by the University of Tsukuba has recently optimized an approach to increase the stability of catalysts used in the hydrogen evolution reacti...
Researchers discover new enzyme paradigm for critical reaction in converting lignin to useful products
Jul 06, 2018 (SPX)
Cytochrome P450s are some of the most versatile enzymes on the planet. These proteins are found in the human body and are involved in many metabolic pathways, i...
Researchers report novel hybrid catalyst to split water
Jul 03, 2018 (SPX)
Most systems to split water into its components - hydrogen and oxygen - require two catalysts, one to spur a reaction to separate the hydrogen and a second to p...
Enzyme boost could hasten production of biofuels and other bioprocessed materials
Jul 03, 2018 (SPX)
Bioprocessing, which uses living cells or their components to make products such as biofuels, plastics, medicines, and cosmetics, is time consuming and expensiv...
New 'promiscuous' enzyme helps turn plant waste into sustainable products
Jul 03, 2018 (SPX)
The discovery was led by members of the same UK-US enzyme engineering team which, in April, improved a plastic-digesting enzyme, a potential breakthrough for th...
New catalyst upgrades carbon dioxide to fuels found by USTC
Jul 03, 2018 (SPX)
A research team led by professor YU Shuhong from University of Science and Technology of China of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Edward H. Sargent from Univers...
Biorenewable, biodegradable plastic alternative synthesized by CSU chemists
Jul 03, 2018 (SPX)
Publishing in Nature Communications, the team led by Professor of Chemistry Eugene Chen describes chemical synthesis of a polymer called bacterial poly(3-hydrox...
I.Coast studies first cocoa-fired power station
Jul 02, 2018 (AFP)
If the 235-million-euro (273-million-dollar) scheme gets the go-ahead, Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa grower, could go on to construct nine more power stati...
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