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03 2014The urgency to develop sustainable fossil fuel alternatives is driven by rapidly increasing global consumption, irreversibly diminishing reserves, unpredictable geopolitical factors, fluctuating price of crude oil, growing concerns about national ...
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03 2014
The superfamily of cytochrome P450 enzymes is one of the most versatile biocatalyst systems in nature.Prof. LI Shengying's group indicates that P450 enzymes could be even more versatile in vivo than previously considered, because these biocatalysts might interact with a variety of redox partners to gain alternative activities. The superfamily of cytochrome P450 enzymes is one of the most versatile biocatalyst systems in nature. P450 enzymes are capable of catalyzing more than 20 distinct types of reactions including regio- and stereoselective oxidation of inactivated C...
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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 water a...
