Microbe That Can Handle Ionic Liquids

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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

In the search for technology by which economically ruthless biofuels can be created from cellulosic biomass, the variation of sugar-fermenting microbes and ionic runny solvents looks to be a bump smooth out for one superior problem: The ionic liquids used to pressurize cellulosic biomass more digestible for microbes can in the same way be disgusting to them. A magic potion to this puzzle, still, may be in the offing.

Researchers next the U.S. Bough of Drive (DOE)'s Mutual BioEnergy Outfit (JBEI), a multi-institutional positive led by Lawrence Berkeley Home town Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), bear recognized a tropical rainforest niggle that can take on absolutely grown-up concentrations of an ionic runny used to break cellulosic biomass. The researchers bear in the same way hard how the niggle is able to do this, a revelation that holds ample implications elapsed the production of above biofuels.

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