lignin

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Riding bacterium to the bank

May 17, 2018 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Sandia National Laboratories scientists Seema Singh, left; and Fang Liu hold vials of vanillin and fermentation broth, which are critical for turning plant matter into biofuels and other valuable chemicals. (Photo by Dino Vourna…

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research, Renewable energy, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: biofuels, E. coli, lignin

New routes to renewables: Sandia speeds transformation of biofuel waste into wealth

November 9, 2017 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — A Sandia National Laboratories-led team has demonstrated faster, more efficient ways to turn discarded plant matter into chemicals worth billions. The team’s findings could help transform the economics of making fuels and other products from domestica…

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research, Renewable energy

Topics: biofuels, lignin, renewables

Turning ubiquitous lignin into high-value chemicals

September 16, 2016 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Sandia National Laboratories researchers Arul Varman, left, and Seema Singh, who is the principal investigator, are part of a team that mapped the metabolic pathway of a bacteria that lives solely off lignin. The breakthrough, p…

Categories: Biology, Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy

Topics: biofuel production, lignin, metabolic flux analysis, metabolic pathway, metabolizing lignin, Sandia National Laboratories, Sphingobium