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Re-engineering biofuel-producing bacterial enzymes
Sep 15, 2017 (SPX)
Helping bacteria become more efficient in this process could result in more affordable biofuels for our gas tanks and sustainable products such as bioplastics. ...
How well electron transport works in furfural biogas
Sep 15, 2017 (SPX)
Ana Lozano from the Institute of Fundamental Physics in Madrid, Spain, and colleagues studied an electron beam entering a cell filled with furfural gas molecule...
China aims to extend ethanol fuel usage countrywide by 2020
Sep 13, 2017 (AFP)
The plan will "support the use of ethanol fuel throughout the country by 2020" while strengthening the capacity of the biofuel industry, according to a document...
How to draw electricity from the bloodstream
Sep 13, 2017 (SPX)
For thousands of years, people have used the energy of flowing or falling water for their purposes, first to power mechanical engines such as watermills, then t...
Scientists make methanol using air around us
Sep 13, 2017 (SPX)
Methanol is currently produced by breaking down natural gas at high temperatures into hydrogen gas and carbon monoxide before reassembling them - expensive and ...
A new way to directly convert methane to methanol using gold-palladium nanoparticles
Sep 13, 2017 (SPX)
Now researchers have discovered a new approach that allows the direct conversion of methane to methanol utilizing molecular oxygen under much milder reaction co...
Researchers develop 3-D-printed biomaterials that degrade on demand
Sep 13, 2017 (SPX)
"It's a bit like Legos," said Ian Wong, an assistant professor in Brown's School of Engineering and co-author of the research. "We can attach polymers together ...
A sweeter way to make green products
Sep 13, 2017 (SPX)
A UD research team has invented a more efficient process for extracting the sugars from wood chips, corn cobs and other organic waste from forests and farms. Th...
Could switchgrass help China's air quality?
Sep 07, 2017 (SPX)
"China's poor air quality is caused by a combination of coal burning and particulates from soil erosion. The Loess Plateau is the major source of erosion in Chi...
Center for Biorenewable Chemicals introduces idea for new molecules,
Sep 04, 2017 (SPX)
That's a reality that has leaders of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Biorenewable Chemicals (CBiRC) based at Iowa State Universi...
Reusable ruthenium-based catalyst could be a game-changer for the biomass industry
Sep 04, 2017 (SPX)
Although many attempts have been made to improve their synthesis using catalysts containing nickel, palladium and platinum, for example, few have succeeded in r...
Technique could aid mass production of biodegradable plastic
Aug 31, 2017 (SPX)
That step? Bringing the heat. Nebraska's Yiqi Yang and colleagues found that raising the temperature of bio-plastic fibers to several hundred degrees Fahrenheit...
Researchers identify cheaper, greener biofuels processing catalyst
Aug 28, 2017 (SPX)
Biofuels are made from renewable materials such as plants or algae, and offer an alternative to petroleum-based sources. However, many biofuels are costly to pr...
Cyborg bacteria outperform plants when turning sunlight into useful compounds
Aug 23, 2017 (SPX)
The researchers are presenting their work at the 254th National Meeting and Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS). ACS, the world's largest scientif...
Stretchable biofuel cells extract energy from sweat to power wearable devices
Aug 23, 2017 (SPX)
The epidermal biofuel cells are a major breakthrough in the field, which has been struggling with making the devices that are stretchable enough and powerful en...
How a bacterium can live on methanol
Aug 23, 2017 (SPX)
Methanol can be generated from methane. Both are simple molecules containing only a single carbon atom. However, using them to produce larger molecules with sev...
Potato waste processing may be the road to enhanced food waste conversion
Aug 21, 2017 (SPX)
Using potato mash made from the peelings and potato residuals from a Pennsylvania food-processor, researchers triggered simultaneous saccharification - the proc...
Mexico's prickly pear cactus: energy source of the future?
Aug 17, 2017 (AFP)
It was considered sacred by the ancient Aztecs, and modern-day Mexicans eat it, drink it, and even use it in medicines and shampoos. Now scientists have come up...
Additive selectively converts CO2 to multicarbon fuels
Aug 07, 2017 (SPX)
"The results were quite shocking," says Jonas Peters, Bren Professor of Chemistry at Caltech and director of the Resnick Sustainability Institute, who jointly l...
Biochar could clear the air in more ways than one
Jul 31, 2017 (SPX)
Rice researchers in Earth science, economics and environmental engineering have determined that widespread use of biochar in agriculture could reduce health car...
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