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Alcohols and polyols are important biomass-based chemicals. Starting from simple biomass-based building blocks, such as ethanol, butanol, acetone, 5-hydroxyfurfural or glycerol, a series of new synthetic routes to different biomass-based alcohols ...
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12 2013There has been a continuing rise in the global demand for liquid transport fuels. Biomass is the only carbon containing resource in sustainable energy, and the new process route for dimethyl ether (DME)-to-gasoline offers a desired solution. At pr...
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11 2013Harvesting energy directly from sunlight using photovoltaic technology is considered to be one of the most important ways to address the energy and environmental problem. Organic solar cells (OSCs) are a promising alternative for producing clean a...
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09 2013Polyoxymethylene (POM) is widely used as a traditional metal substitute due to its high crystallinity, and excellent tensile, impact, and compression strength since its discovery as early as 1920s. Although POM currently derives from fossil fuel m...
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08 2013The use of undegradable petroleum-based plastics has caused serious environmental pollution. To resolve this problem fundamentally, an efficient way is to develop the biosynthesis of degradable plastics, which has been listed as key areas of high-...
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08 2013The core of microalgal biofuel production is to obtain a large number of microalgal biomass through large-scale cultivation robustly at low cost. To date, almost all oleaginous microalgae species used for biofuel are unicellular. However, all the ...
