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Critical plant gene takes unexpected detour that could boost biofuel yields
Jun 18, 2018 (SPX)
But for Wellington Muchero, Meng Xie and their colleagues, this enzyme does more than advertised. They had run a series of experiments on poplar plants that con...
Orange, tea tree and eucalyptus oils sweeten diesel fumes
Jun 18, 2018 (SPX)
"As only therapeutic grade oil can be used, there is a substantial volume of low-value waste oil that currently is stored, awaiting a use," Mr Rahman said. "Our...
'Tricking' bacteria into hydroxylating benzene
Jun 14, 2018 (SPX)
Getting enzymes to do novel reactions - effectively hijacking the biochemistry of living cells for our own purposes - is generally tricky, involving harsh condi...
How to suck carbon dioxide from the sky for fuels and more
Jun 11, 2018 (SPX)
"The carbon dioxide generated via direct air capture can be combined with sequestration for carbon removal, or it can enable the production of carbon-neutral hy...
Scientists sustainably 3D print large objects out of cellulose
Jun 06, 2018 (SPX)
Because cellulose is one of the most abundant commercially available compounds, material scientists have been trying to find ways to use it in additive manufact...
Polymer researchers discover path to sustainable and biodegradable polyesters
Jun 04, 2018 (SPX)
As useful as polyolefins are in society, they continue to multiply as trash in the environment. Scientists estimate plastic bags, for example, will take centuri...
'Deforestation-free' palm oil not as simple as it sounds
May 29, 2018 (SPX)
Palm oil is a vegetable oil that is used in thousands of products worldwide, including an estimated 50% of all products on supermarkets shelves, from food to de...
Scientists have deciphered the chemical reaction mechanism critical for cleaner combustion
May 24, 2018 (SPX)
The mechanism depicted by the scientists will help in creating physically based combustion models required for the development of fundamentally new ecologically...
Technique doubles conversion of CO2 to plastic component
May 24, 2018 (SPX)
Produced almost entirely from burning fossil fuels, carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere have risen from 280 parts per million in the pre-industrial ...
Advanced biofuels can be produced extremely efficiently, confirms industrial demonstration
May 24, 2018 (SPX)
"The potential is huge! Using only the already existing Swedish energy plants, we could produce renewable fuels equivalent to 10 percent of the world's aviation...
New catalyst upgrades greenhouse gas into renewable hydrocarbons
May 22, 2018 (SPX)
Today, non-renewable fossil fuels not only provide the raw material from which plastics are made, they are also the fuel burned to power the manufacturing proce...
Key enzyme for production of second-generation ethanol discovered in Brazilian Amazon
May 18, 2018 (SPX)
Holder of the world's best biomass and boasting the installed industrial capacity, the requisite specialized engineers and the right yeast, Brazil performs adva...
World's strongest bio-material outperforms steel and spider silk
May 17, 2018 (SPX)
The team headed by Daniel Soderberg from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm reports the work in the journal ACS Nano of the American Chemical So...
Toward organic fuel cells with forest fuels
May 15, 2018 (SPX)
Approximately 25% of a tree is lignin - a biopolymer that glues the cellulose fibres together to form strong and durable wood. During the chemical manufacture o...
Novel approach for photosynthetic production of carbon neutral biofuel from green algae
May 04, 2018 (SPX)
A research group from the University of Turku, Finland, has discovered an efficient way for transforming solar energy into the chemical energy of biohydrogen th...
Solar powered sea slugs shed light on search for perpetual green energy
May 04, 2018 (SPX)
"It's a remarkable feat because it's highly unusual for an animal to behave like a plant and survive solely on photosynthesis," said Debashish Bhattacharya, sen...
Energy recovery of urban waste
May 03, 2018 (SPX)
Faced with this reality, researchers from the Higher Technical School of Engineering (Escuela Tecnica Superior de Ingenieria - ETSI) of the University of Sevill...
Novel reaction could spark alternate approach to ammonia production
May 03, 2018 (SPX)
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory used nanoscale spikes of carbon to catalyze a reaction that generates ammonia from nitro...
New catalyst turns ammonia into an innovative clean fuel
Apr 30, 2018 (SPX)
Although it is a primary candidate for clean secondary energy, large amounts of H2 must be converted into liquid form, which is a difficult process, for easier ...
Carbon capture could be a financial opportunity for US biofuels
Apr 24, 2018 (SPX)
"There's really no scenario that meets the world's climate goals without negative emissions," said Katharine Mach, a senior research scientist at Stanford's Sch...
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