News tagged with biocatalysts
Progress Toward a Biological Fuel Cell?
Dec 30, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Biological fuel cells use enzymes or whole microorganisms as biocatalysts for the direct conversion of chemical energy to electrical energy. One type of microbial fuel cell uses anodes (positive electrodes) ...
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Synthetic protein mimics structure, function of metalloprotein in nature
Dec 10, 2009 |
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Scientists have designed a synthetic protein that is both a structural model and a functional model of a native protein, nitric-oxide reductase.
Researchers Discover Novel Method for Activating Enzymatic Reactions
Jul 22, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at North Carolina State University have discovered a new method for "switching on" enzymatic reactions with precise energy delivery: by using microwave radiation.
Researchers Developing More Efficient Ethanol Production Method
Feb 26, 2008 |
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A University of Wyoming professor has received a $485,000 grant to explore a more economical way to produce ethanol.
A new wrinkle in evolution -- Man-made proteins
Biology /
May 23, 2007 |
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Nature, through the trial and error of evolution, has discovered a vast diversity of life from what can only presumed to have been a primordial pool of building blocks. Inspired by this success, a new Biodesign ...
Night of the living enzyme
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Nov 28, 2006 |
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Inactive enzymes entombed in tiny honeycomb-shaped holes in silica can spring to life, scientists at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have found. The discovery came after salvaging ...
Novel process reduces toxic chemical use
Mar 23, 2006 |
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A chemical engineer at The University of Auckland has used environmentally-friendly vegetable oils to replace toxic chemical solvents like kerosene in the extraction of a range of biomolecules, such as antibiotics and organic ...
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