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03 2014The conversion of methane, which is the main constituent of natural gas, biogas and shale gas, into liquid hydrocarbons on the methane extraction site would reduce the transportation costs while increasing the recovery and availability. Compared t...
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02 2014
Professor CUI Guanglei and his Biomimetics for Energy Storage Group from Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), have made series progress on functional materials for electrochemical energy storage. Professor CUI Guanglei and his Biomimetics for Energy Storage Group from Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), have made series functional materials for electrochemical energy storage...
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01 2014
Professor ZHAO Xuebo developed a series of novel MOFs that have shown great potentials in the fields of energy gas (i.e. H2 or CH4) storage and CO2 capture due to their high surface area, tunable structural and amenable pore environments. It is urgently important to develop the MOFs with excellent performance and good stability for the utilization in energy storage applications. Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) are new types of crystalline porous materials constructed from the self-assembly of organic ligands and inorganic metal ions or metal clusters. Compared with conventional porous materials, MOFs have shown great pote...
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01 2014
Prof. XU Jian's research group has sequenced and compared six Nannochloropsis genomes, which share key oleaginous traits, such as the gene dose expansion of selected lipid biosynthesis genes compared to green algae Chlamydomonas.
Photosynthetic microalgae are of interest as potential feedstock for fuels because of their high yield of oil in cell, high growth rate, tolerance of diverse environmental conditions and capability to grow on non-arable land using brackish wa...
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12 2013
Biologist Cui Qiu carries out tests on the germ clostridium, in a bid to produce new biofuels. Photo: Dr Cui Qiu
Biologist Cui Qiu manipulates genes of little-known bacteria to make them superstars of fuel production. In one recent achiev...
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12 2013
Metagenomics method directly sequences and dynamically analyses taxonomic and functional information of microbial communities, which could potentially optimize bio-processes behind some key bioenergy applications such as cellulose degradation, pol...
