[HTML][HTML] Biofuels for a sustainable future

Y Liu, P Cruz-Morales, A Zargar, MS Belcher, B Pang… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Rapid increases of energy consumption and human dependency on fossil fuels have led to
the accumulation of greenhouse gases and consequently, climate change. As such, major …

Third-generation biorefineries as the means to produce fuels and chemicals from CO2

Z Liu, K Wang, Y Chen, T Tan, J Nielsen - Nature Catalysis, 2020 - nature.com
Concerns regarding petroleum depletion and global climate change caused by greenhouse
gas emissions have spurred interest in renewable alternatives to fossil fuels. Third …

Bacteria–photocatalyst sheet for sustainable carbon dioxide utilization

Q Wang, S Kalathil, C Pornrungroj, CD Sahm… - Nature Catalysis, 2022 - nature.com
The clean conversion of carbon dioxide and water to a single multicarbon product and O2
using sunlight via photocatalysis without the assistance of organic additives or electricity …

Wastewater treatment for carbon capture and utilization

L Lu, JS Guest, CA Peters, X Zhu, GH Rau… - Nature Sustainability, 2018 - nature.com
A paradigm shift is underway in wastewater treatment as the industry heads toward~ 3% of
global electricity consumption and contributes~ 1.6% of greenhouse gas emissions …

Maximizing light-driven CO2 and N2 fixation efficiency in quantum dot–bacteria hybrids

X Guan, S Erşan, X Hu, TL Atallah, Y **e, S Lu, B Cao… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Integrating light-harvesting materials with microbial biochemistry is a viable approach to
produce chemicals with high efficiency from air, water and sunlight. Yet it remains unclear …

Interfacing nature's catalytic machinery with synthetic materials for semi-artificial photosynthesis

N Kornienko, JZ Zhang, KK Sakimoto, P Yang… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Semi-artificial photosynthetic systems aim to overcome the limitations of natural and artificial
photosynthesis while providing an opportunity to investigate their respective functionality …

The industrial yeast Pichia pastoris is converted from a heterotroph into an autotroph capable of growth on CO2

T Gassler, M Sauer, B Gasser, M Egermeier… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris is widely used in the manufacture of industrial
enzymes and pharmaceuticals. Like most biotechnological production hosts, P. pastoris is …

Semi-biological approaches to solar-to-chemical conversion

X Fang, S Kalathil, E Reisner - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
This review presents a comprehensive summary of the recent development in semi-artificial
photosynthesis, a biological-material hybrid approach to solar-to-chemical conversion that …

The ins and outs of microorganism–electrode electron transfer reactions

A Kumar, LHH Hsu, P Kavanagh, F Barrière… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
Electron transfer between microorganisms and an electrode—even across long distances—
enables the former to live by coupling to an electronic circuit. Such a system integrates …

Making quantitative sense of electromicrobial production

NJ Claassens, CAR Cotton, D Kopljar, A Bar-Even - Nature Catalysis, 2019 - nature.com
The integration of electrochemical and microbial processes offers a unique opportunity to
displace fossil carbon with CO2 and renewable energy as the primary feedstocks for carbon …