Sep

14

Add Sugar to Sulfur To Beat Lithium Ion Batteries

September 14, 2021 | Leave a Comment

Monash Energy Institute has created a longer-lasting, lighter, more sustainable rival to the lithium-ion batteries simply by adding sugar. The new battery performance level is essential for aviation, electric vehicles and submarines. The Monash team, assisted by CSIRO Manufacturing, report in Nature Communications that using a glucose-based additive on the positive electrode they have managed […]

Jul

3

Two Steps For Sugar From Cellulose and Hemicellulose

July 3, 2019 | Leave a Comment

Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT) researchers leading an international collaboration have developed a two-step method to more efficiently break down carbohydrates into their single sugar components, a critical process in producing green fuel. The research group published their results in the American Chemical Society journal Industrial & Engineering Chemical Research. The breakdown process […]

Aug

24

Cyanobacteria May Challenge Algae

August 24, 2017 | 6 Comments

Sandia National Laboratories is helping HelioBioSys Inc.and they have patented a group of three single-celled, algae-like organisms that, when grown together, can produce high quantities of sugar just right for making biofuels. The partnership is to help HelioBioSys Inc. learn whether farming them on a large scale would be successful. We might not cook with […]

Oct

7

New Yeast Treatment For Higher Ethanol Levels

October 7, 2014 | 1 Comment

Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientists have identified a new way to boost yeast tolerance to ethanol by simply altering the composition of the medium in which the yeast are grown. Yeasts are commonly used to remake sugar, corn starch and other plant materials into biofuels such as ethanol, but high concentrations of ethanol can be […]

Jan

23

Arrival of the Organic Sugar BioBattery

January 23, 2014 | 2 Comments

A Virginia Tech research team has developed an organic biobattery based on sugar and has an unmatched energy density.  The development that could replace conventional batteries with ones those are cheaper, refillable, and biodegradable. Y.H. Percival Zhang, an associate professor of biological systems engineering in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the College […]

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