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04 2020
Researchers in China have engineered a microbe that shows promise as the foundation of an efficient way to break down polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a common plastic fiber used to manufacture clothing and disposable consumer products.
The researchers published their findings in the Microbial Biotechnology on DATE.
Researchers in China have engineered a microbe that shows promise as the foundation of an efficient way to break down polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a common plastic fiber used to manufacture clothing and disposable consumer products.
The r...
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04 2020
Recently, a research team led by Prof. YANG Yong from Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), reported the fabrication of a bifunctional iron nanocomposite catalyst, in which two catalytically active sites of oxidation and Lewis acid sites are simultaneously integrated into a porous carbon. Oxidation of alkenes to carbonyl compounds is one of the most important industrial reactions. The oxidation products are very important and useful intermediates or building block in synthetic organic chemistry, pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and ...
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04 2020
An “Asymmetric Kinetic Resolution Polymerization (AKRP)” strategy has been proposed and utilized for chiral polymers synthesis and characterization by Catalytic Polymerization and Process Group in Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Chirality science is related to life science, human health, material technology and national economy. Inspired by biological macromolecules (DNAs, proteins, etc.), scientists have found that chirality is also one of the basic characteristics of po...
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03 2020
Recently, a research team led by Prof. LIU Licheng from Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), found that directly coating the amino-functionalized carbon layer can effectively regulate the electronic structure of the non-precious metal catalyst SnS, thereby accelerating the electron conduction efficiency and enhancing the adsorption energies of OCHO* and CO2*, which leads to an increase in reaction current density and formate production. Carbon dioxide (CO2) emission has become a global problem, leading to the greenhouse effect greenhouse to the earth. Hence, efficient conversion of CO2 into value-added liquid fuels is one of significant ways to fix CO2, and it can alleviate the g...
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03 2020
Big data makes big promises when it comes to providing insights into human behavior and health. The problem is how to harness the information it provides in an efficient manner. An international team of researchers has proposed a microbiome search-based method, via Microbiome Search Engine (MSE; http://mse.ac.cn), to analyze the wealth of available health data to detect and diagnose human diseases. They published their method on March 17, 2020 in mSystems, a peer-reviewed open access journal of the American Society for Microbiology. Big data makes big promises when it comes to providing insights into human behavior and health. The problem is how to harness the information it provides in an efficient manner. An international team of researchers has proposed a microbiome search...
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03 2020
Recently, a research team led by Prof. XIAN Mo and Prof. ZHAO Guang from Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) discovered a novel bacterial acid tolerance system, which confers the growth capability at pH 4.2 to E. coli. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15350-5. Growth ability at acidic conditions is important to bacteria. Enteric bacteria such as Escherichia coli and Salmonella can colonize and cause disease in the host’s intestinal tract, but they have to combat acidic environments during the whole pro...
