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01 2017
The Microbial Resource Group, led by Professor LI Fuli, from the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, found a novel thermophilic bacterium for ethanol production from brown algae. You may know kelp as a common seaweed food on our table. As a kind of brown algae with complex sugar compositions, kelp can also be converted into biofuels due to its inherent advantages of no lignin, high growth rate, and no competition with food...
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01 2017
Recently, the Biomimetic Smart Material Group, led by Professor LI Chaoxu from the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT), Chinese Academy of Sciences, developed an approach for scalable production of exfoliated WS2 with unprecedented efficiency and further construction of biomimetic soft devices. Ocean is always a vast resource treasury of human beings given by the nature. Alginate, a marine polysaccharide produced mainly from brown algae, shows high water solubility, high thickening property, film-forming property, gelatinizing property, ...
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01 2017
The Modelling and Simulation Group from the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT) of the Chinese Academy Sciences, led by Professor YAO Lishan, demonstrated the quantitative analysis of the h-bond cooperativity in a intact (or natural) protein. Human diseases may be caused by the malfunction of an intact protein. Hydrogen bond (h-bond) is one of the key interactions in maintaining the structure of a protein and facilitating its function. The presence and extent of h-bond cooperativity in...
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12 2016
A research group from the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT) of the Chinese Academy Sciences has developed novel catalysis routes to convert biomass to jet/diesel fuels. You may know the gasoline (4-12 carbon numbers, commonly referred to as C4-C12) in the gas station contains some percentage of ethanol (C2) as additive. However, long-chain alcohols (C4-C19) are regarded as better alternatives for ethanol in gasol...
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11 2016
For the first time, asymmetric BDTs have been designed to build up polymer solar cells (PSCs) in a research group led by Prof. YANG Renqiang from the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT) of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Surprisingly, the photovoltaic properties of PSCs were improved greatly in comparison with corresponding symmetric BDT based polymers.
Better Flexible Solar Cells Come from a Misoperation
You may know solar cells on satellites and street lights, but you may not know the reasons why these traditional inorganic solar cells are not very commonly found in our daily life. The comp...
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11 2016
Researchers from the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT) of Chinese Academy of Sciences achieved breakthrough development ion fraction and concentration for high salinity wastewater valorization. Water resources demand continually increases with the global economic development and the population explosion. 97.3% of the water on the Earth is salt water and the available fresh water from surface water and groundwater sources only accounts fo...
