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    07 2015

    Cost-effective Nanozyme with Excellent Peroxidase-like Activity

    Natural peroxidases are of great practical significance in the fields of catalytic industry, pharmaceuticals, biosensor, food safety, environmental protection and genetic breeding. However, natural peroxidases as proteins suffer some disadvantages such as cockamamie steps for isolation and purification, as well as denaturation in complex conditions. As the efficient peroxidase alternatives, nanomaterial-based enzyme mimetics (nanozymes) have many unique properties including high stability, low cost, large surface-to-volume ratio and high catalytic activity. However, to date, most of the reported peroxidase mimetics need to work in acidic conditions (pH < 5.0) rather than nearly neutral conditions (pH 6.0-7.4), which would limit their practical applications. Natural peroxidases are of great practical significance in the fields of catalytic industry, pharmaceuticals, biosensor, food safety, environmental protection and genetic breeding. However, natural peroxidases as proteins suffer some disadvantages...

  • 23

    06 2015

    Microalgal Attached Biofilm Cultivation Technology

    The ‘attached cultivation’ technique for microalgae production, combining the immobilized biofilm technology with proper light dilution strategies, has shown improved biomass production and photosynthetic efficiency over conventional open-pond suspended cultures. However, how light is transferred and distributed inside the biofilm has not been clearly defined yet. Attached biofilm cultivation has been the hotspot of microalgae cultivation technology, which has demonstrated very high biomass productivity. However, it is still unknown why the culture of microalgae has high photosynthesis efficiency.
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  • 10

    06 2015

    Monitoring Alkane Synthesis with Fluorescent Biosensor

    Monitoring Alkane Synthesis with Fluorescent Biosensor Producing aliphatic hydrocarbon biofuels using microorganisms has been an attractive idea since the discovery of the natural alkane-producing species and various alkane synthesis pathways. Though many efforts have been made to improve the hydrocar...

  • 10

    06 2015

    Novel Inducible Genetic Operation System for Clostridium

    Clostridium cellulolyticum and other cellulolytic clostridium strains can degrade lignocellulose and produce lignocellulosic biofuels and chemicals. The Metabolomics Group of Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT) is wor...

  • 09

    06 2015

    Accumulation both Neutral Lipids and Biomass in Microalgae

    Microalgal triacylglycerols (TAGs) are one of the most promising feedstocks for biofuel production. By systematically analyzing the lipid accumulation and metabolic mechanism of microalgae, the Metabolomics Group in Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy ...

  • 02

    05 2015

    Power of Phytohormones in Microalgal Biotechnology

    Phytohormones are a class of signaling molecules that are produced intrinsically in plants. In higher plants, phytohormones are usually synthesized in one location and then transported to another location, exerting their physiological effects at e...