Professor Yuriy Román-Leshkov and collaborators have demonstrated a new way to produce a critical component of aviation fuel from lignin, a plant material that’s generally…
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Green lines with dots show a pure culture of Medakamo hakoo streaked onto an agar medium. Study co-author Emeritus Professor Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa first discovered the…
The study demonstrates that lignin has the potential to be used to create 100% sustainable aviation fuel. A collaboration between the National Renewable Energy Laboratory,…
According to new research, as global temperatures rise, the window of opportunity to maximize the use of biomass from plants, wood, and waste as a…
Brazilian researchers discovered, characterized, and validated the functions of two novel enzyme families with biotechnological potential. One method of reducing reliance on oil and other…
Researchers from the University of Cambridge used 3D printing to create grids of high-rise ‘nano-housing’ where sun-loving bacteria can grow quickly. The researchers were then…
As the world’s energy demands increase, so does our consumption of fossil fuels. The result is a massive rise in greenhouse gases emissions with severely…
Surplus corn piled outside a farmer’s co-op storage facility in Paoli, Colorado. If you’ve pumped gas at a U.S. service station over the past decade,…
The ectomycorrhizal fungus Laccaria bicolor, shown in green, envelops the roots of a transgenic switchgrass plant. Switchgrass is not known to interact with this type…
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have discovered a new way to train microbes to make a readily usable biofuel. A team of biologists…
A new study outlines a biotechnology process to produce rocket fuel on red planet. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a concept…
Scientists from Brookhaven National Laboratory discovered a mutation that makes normal Arabidopsis plants (left) deficient in sterol (right). They did extensive genetic and biochemical experiments…
Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are porous, structured organic compounds that can convert solar energy into fuels like hydrogen. Scientists underscore the potential of a new…
A team of scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign developed a bioprocess using engineered yeast that completely and efficiently converted plant matter consisting of…
Study authors (from left to right) Andrew K. Lau, Thomas Eng, and Deepanwita Banerjee stand in front of a two-liter bioreactor containing P. putida cells…
Postdoctoral fellow Yunjun Zhao, the lead author on the paper, and Brookhaven Lab biochemist Chang-Jun Liu with poplar plants in the greenhouse at Brookhaven National…
MIT researchers have found a way to achieve high yields of ethanol with different types of cellulosic feedstocks, including switchgrass, wheat straw, and corn stover.…
In a new paper, researchers present a method to more efficiently produce biofuels from woody plant materials such as corn residues and some grasses. Credit:…
Justin Billing, shown here, and his PNNL colleagues are advancing technologies and approaches to convert different kinds of materials, including food waste, into biofuels. (Photo…
Illustration Credit: Cortland Johnson | PNNL Small stockpiles of biomass such as sewage, food waste, and wood chips are often overlooked in visions of future…