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Researchers Create Soy-Based Filter Capable of Capturing Toxic Chemicals

Researchers at the Washington State University have designed a soy-based air filter that is capable of capturing toxic chemicals, such as formaldehyde and carbon monoxide, which is not possible with existing air filters.

16 Jan 2017

UPM’s Wood-Based Diesel Test Runs Prove Successful in Traffic Conditions

Finnish wood-based diesel fuel has been successfully tested by UPM both in the laboratory conditions and traffic. The results of the tests clearly indicated that UPM BioVerno, UPM’s renewable diesel works just like the best diesel fuels.

30 Nov 2016

Researchers Develop New Biosupercapacitor that Efficiently Generates and Stores Energy

Efficient production and storage of energy - for example, for implanted medical systems - is a major challenge for today’s society. Now, scientists have developed a new biocatalyst-polymer system that could perform both tasks at once. This system is a hybrid of a fuel cell and capacitor on a biocatalytic basis.

16 Nov 2016

27 Teams Advancing in $20m NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE

Teams in global competition want to convert CO2 waste into products ranging from building materials to toothpaste. XPRIZE, the world’s leader in designing and managing incentive competitions to solve humanity’s grand ...

From NRG Energy, Inc. 18 Oct 2016

Biofuels Researchers Engineer Plant Lignin and Explain Evolutionary Path

In 2014, researchers announced the successful engineering of a poplar plant "designed for deconstruction.” The finding caught the attention of the global scientific community.

17 Oct 2016

University of Southampton Scientists Reengineer Fundamental Process of Photosynthesis

University of Southampton scientists have redesigned the fundamental process of photosynthesis used to power valuable chemical reactions capable of being used to generate fine chemicals, pharmaceuticals and biofuels.

8 Sep 2016

Researchers Use E.coli to Engineer Improved Biofuels

Although E. coli bacteria is most of the times considered as a bad bug, laboratory-adapted E. coli that do not harm human beings, at the same time can multiply fast, have been commonly used for various research purposes.

11 Aug 2016

Researchers Develop New Hybrid Sweetgum Trees that Enhance Bioenergy and Paper Production

Sweetgum trees survive in a wide range of diverse conditions and have a fast growth rate similar to pine trees. They provide the type of fiber needed for specialty papers, and they have long been desired by paper and bioenergy producers.

13 Jul 2016

Weizmann Institute Develop Bacteria Capable of Using Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide to Create Sugar

Life on Earth depends in some way or the other on carbon fixation, which is the ability of algae, plants, and some bacteria to “pump” carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, add solar or other energy, and convert it into the sugars that are the required starting point crucial for life processes.

24 Jun 2016

Biological-Based Fuel Cell Uses Waste Tomatoes to Generate Electricity

A group of scientists are working to generate electricity from an unusual source: damaged tomatoes, which are not fit to be sold at grocery stores. The pilot project involves a biological-based fuel cell, which utilizes waste tomatoes discarded during harvests in Florida.

17 Mar 2016