Here, scientists found a microbial community finely adapted to digesting plant biomass. Within it was CelOCE, a powerful catalyst that wasn’t engineered in a lab but shaped by nature over time.

A groundbreaking study published in Nature reveals a transformative enzyme that could revolutionize the production of second-generation biofuels. Developed by scientists at Brazil’s Center for ...

Lignocellulosic biomass is considered as a major feedstock to produce value-added renewable chemicals. In this study, a new water-based lubricant was prepared using biomass-derived levulinic acid (LA) ...

Economic biofuel production requires high sugar yields during biomass pretreatment, however, the chemical and structural features of biomass can be obstructive toward efficient xylose hydrolysis. Here ...

Acid hydrolysis of the nine agro-wastes substrates showed jackfruit seed powder (2%) as a promising substrate and supported maximum PHB production of 8.03 g/L and 51.7% PHA accumulation in 48 h in a N ...

Similar hydrolysis curves have been reported for several protein substrates, such as peanut (Jamdar et al., 2010), Jatropha curcas seed cake (Selanon et al., 2014), rice protein (Li et al., 2016) and ...

Biomass is one of the most versatile sources of renewable energy and our only source of renewable materials. It is attracting increasing attention on the world stage because it has the potential to ...

Okuda et al. studied the Fe-assisted hydrothermal liquefaction of lignocellulosic biomass using Empty Fruit Bunches (EFB) from fuel palm trees to produce high-grade biofuel. They found that at 300˚C ...