Revisiting carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus metabolisms in microalgae for wastewater treatment

Y Su - Science of the total environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Threats posed to humans-including environmental pollution, water scarcity, food shortages,
and resource crises drive a new concept to think about wastewater and its treatment …

Photosynthetic semiconductor biohybrids for solar-driven biocatalysis

S Cestellos-Blanco, H Zhang, JM Kim, Y Shen… - Nature Catalysis, 2020 - nature.com
Photosynthetic semiconductor biohybrids integrate the best attributes of biological whole-
cell catalysts and semiconducting nanomaterials. Enzymatic machinery enveloped in its …

Cell-free chemoenzymatic starch synthesis from carbon dioxide

T Cai, H Sun, J Qiao, L Zhu, F Zhang, J Zhang, Z Tang… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Starches, a storage form of carbohydrates, are a major source of calories in the human diet
and a primary feedstock for bioindustry. We report a chemical-biochemical hybrid pathway …

Bioinspiration in light harvesting and catalysis

AH Proppe, YC Li, A Aspuru-Guzik… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Capturing and converting solar energy into fuels and feedstocks is a global challenge that
spans numerous disciplines and fields of research. Billions of years of evolution have …

Photocatalysis: basic principles, diverse forms of implementations and emerging scientific opportunities

S Zhu, D Wang - Advanced Energy Materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Photocatalysis promises a solution to challenges associated with the intermittent nature of
sunlight which is considered as renewable and ultimate energy source to power activities on …

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 …

Nitrogen addition promotes terrestrial plants to allocate more biomass to aboveground organs: A global meta‐analysis

H Feng, J Guo, C Peng, D Kneeshaw… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A significant increase in reactive nitrogen (N) added to terrestrial ecosystems through
agricultural fertilization or atmospheric deposition is considered to be one of the most …

Redesigning photosynthesis to sustainably meet global food and bioenergy demand

DR Ort, SS Merchant, J Alric, A Barkan… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
The world's crop productivity is stagnating whereas population growth, rising affluence, and
mandates for biofuels put increasing demands on agriculture. Meanwhile, demand for …

[HTML][HTML] Meeting the global food demand of the future by engineering crop photosynthesis and yield potential

SP Long, A Marshall-Colon, XG Zhu - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
Increase in demand for our primary foodstuffs is outstrip** increase in yields, an
expanding gap that indicates large potential food shortages by mid-century. This comes at a …

Fuelling the future: microbial engineering for the production of sustainable biofuels

JC Liao, L Mi, S Pontrelli, S Luo - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2016 - nature.com
Global climate change linked to the accumulation of greenhouse gases has caused
concerns regarding the use of fossil fuels as the major energy source. To mitigate climate …