Sentences with phrase «by cellulose»

The students» BioVolt MFC prototypes use electrons released by cellulose - munching bacteria to generate electricity.

Extruded Polystyrene is a close second at 5.05 / inch followed by Cellulose Loose - fill at 3.61 / inch and batt insulation around 3.42 / inch.

It will be bound by cellulose, just like the protein that she really needs at this time.

Not exact matches

Regular biofuel production works by fermenting the sugars stored in crops such as sugar cane or corn, but the team's idea is to instead transform the sugar found in the cellulose of the residual crop material — the stalks, stems and leaves.

Innovia Films» compostable cellulose - based material, NatureFlex, has been selected by Miss Muffet & Co, to wrap its range of fairytale and nursery rhyme inspired premium confectionery.

«Formulating Bakery Applications with Functional Cellulose Food Gums,» Vicki Deyarmond, customer applications specialist, Dow Food Solutions, [email protected], 989-638-1416 — Summary by Elizabeth Pelofske, Contributing Editor

This improves the texture and flavour of the kale by breaking down it's tough cellulose structure.

All hot dogs are made by pumping a meat mixture and seasonings including coriander, garlic, ground mustard, nutmeg, salt, sugar, and white pepper, known as batter, into casings, either natural (animal intestines) or cellulose, and cooking the links in a smokehouse with a variety of woods.

Refers to a class of enzymes produced chiefly by fungi, bacteria, and protozoans that catalyze the hydrolysis of cellulose.

These pads were made from unbleached creped cellulose tissue because cotton was a war material that was difficult to come by.

This system works by trapping a cellulose particle that's mere micrometers across in a beam of nearly invisible laser light.

A biochemical addition to the cellulose produced by E. coli and other species of bacteria lets them create colonies that are resistant to disruption, researchers report in the Jan. 19 Science.

And although a single celluloid comb cost one dollar in 1930, by the end of the decade one could buy a machine - molded comb of cellulose acetate for anywhere from a dime to fifty cents.

In the present study, researchers of Kanazawa University, Japan, attacked this problem; they succeeded in reducing the toxicity to microorganisms by developing a novel solvent, a carboxylate - type liquid zwitterion * 1, for dissolving biomass cellulose.

One method bathes the cellulose in sulfuric acid at high temperatures and high pressure, an expensive technique developed by Germany during World War II.

To create a new bioink, Gatenholm's team mixed polysaccharides from brown algae and tiny cellulose fibrils from wood or made by bacteria, as well as human chondrocytes, which are cells that build up cartilage.

The researchers demonstrated this idea by mixing up a batch of ink laced with the cellulose - producing bacteria Acetobacter xylinum and printing a patch in the precise shape of a doll's face.

The RPI team made the paper battery by first growing an array of carbon nanotubes on a silicon surface and then covering the array in dissolved cellulose (the main constituent of paper).

Cellulose - loving fungi can cut biofuel costs by enabling existing corn ethanol plants to process cheaper, woody feedstocks such as corn stover

Ten years later, no one knows what was in the cloud of gases released by the combustion of all that jet fuel and building material but science has revealed what was in the dust — cement, steel, gypsum from drywall, building materials, cellulose from paper, synthetic molecules from rugs, glass fibers and human hair from the long decades of the two towers» use, among other items.

Cellulose acetate loses strength as it absorbs water, so the skin is waterproofed by adding a protein found in paper wasp saliva that makes their nests hydrophobic.

These would be new types of bio-ethanol or other sorts of potential fuels that would be made by converting the cellulose, the stocky, woody material that's really makes up the structure of most plants; and we have a lot of that.

Cellulose fibers produced by the model organism Komagataeibacter (Gluconacetobacter) xylinus are very similar to those found in plants (1) and are increasingly used in biotechnology and nanotechnology (2, 3).

Nanocrystalline cellulose (NCC), which is produced by processing wood pulp, is being hailed as the latest wonder material.

A research team from the National University of Singapore's (NUS) Faculty of Engineering has achieved a world's first by successfully converting paper waste into green cellulose aerogels that are non-toxic, ultralight, flexible, extremely strong and water repellent.

In addition, compressed cellulose aerogels can be used to plug life - threatening wounds such as a gunshot or stabbing lesion by injecting them into the wound cavity.

This is done by infusing the fibres of the cellulose aerogels with a solution of metallic nanoparticles.

The researchers are working together to develop new biomaterial applications within the Design Driven Value Chains in the World of Cellulose (DWoC) 2.0 project coordinated by VTT.

Finding a cost - effective method for breaking down the tough cellulose in plant matter to produce ethanol has been a tough challenge, involving both innovations in chemistry and in field operations like the baling feeder developed by Woodford.

At the research facility snow crystals like this one are captured by placing samples on copper metal plates containing a precooled methyl cellulose solution.

The novel cellulose aerogels developed by the NUS team could also signal a change in the packing industry.

The EPSRC - funded study, published in Biomacromolecules and undertaken by University of Bristol researchers, explored the feasibility of using natural fibres such as silk and cellulose as stem cell scaffolds — the matrix to which stem cells can cling to as they grow.

A fungus that plagued GI's during World War II by eating shirts and tent cloth might be put to use to create biofuels from cellulose.

The research, led by Jeremy Smith, a Governor's Chair at the University of Tennessee (UT) and director of the UT - ORNL Center for Molecular Biophysics, revealed in atomistic detail why lignin is such a problem: Not only does it bind to cellulose in the preferred locations sought by enzymes, but lignin also attracts and occupies the cellulose - binding domain of the enzymes themselves.

The WSU and Chinese team developed a new kind of air filtering material that uses natural, purified soy protein and bacterial cellulose — an organic compound produced by bacteria.

Together the two plants would produce, at best, 22 million gallons of ethanol a year by using sulfuric acid to break the lignocellulose bonds and then burning the leftover lignin to power fermentation of the cellulose into ethanol.

By analyzing samples taken directly from a cow's cellulose - digesting foregut, the authors of a new study elucidated a new catalogue of nearly 30,000 enzymes that could lead to more efficient production of cellulosic biofuel

He was addressing his hosts, men such as Frank Popoff, president of US chemicals giant Dow Chemicals, and Erling Lorentzen, chairman of Aracruz Cellulose, whose port for exporting wood pulp had that morning been blockaded by the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior.

The process by which bacteria make cellulose and secrete it to build biofilms is already quite complex, regulated by more than a dozen different genes working together.

Cellulose is extracted from wood to make paper, is the basis of cellophane, and has also recently been used by materials scientists developing novel plastic materials.

Like the beetle scales, the cellulose membranes are extremely thin: just a few millionths of a metre thick, although the researchers say that even thinner membranes could be produced by further optimising their fabrication process.

«Cellulose nanofibres are the main reinforcement in all plant structures and are characterised by nanoscale dimensions, high strength and toughness,» Berglund told New Scientist.

The material — which is 20 times whiter than paper — is made from non-toxic cellulose and achieves such bright whiteness by mimicking the structure of the ultra-thin scales of certain types of beetle.

Researchers have been able to watch the interior cells of a plant synthesize cellulose for the first time by tricking the cells into growing on the plant's surface.

The enzymes — lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs)-- are secreted by both fungi and bacteria and have the ability to «chip away» at cellulose and other intractable materials.

The on - going York research into LPMOs, which is led by Professor Walton and Professor Davies from the Department of Chemistry, is part of Critical Enzymes for Sustainable Biofuels from Cellulose (CESBIC), a collaborative project funded by the European Research Area Industrial Biotechnology network (ERA - IB).

Conducted by Zainab Ngaini and colleagues at the Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, the study found that when sago waste (consisting primarily of cellulose and lignin) is chemically modified using fatty acid derivatives, the resulting material is more hydrophobic than untreated sago waste, implying that it has less affinity for water and an excellent affinity for oil.

Using a barely visible violet laser controlled by mirrors, the researchers trapped a cellulose particle and moved it rapidly through space.

Some compounds produced by the degradation and break down of cellulose are known to promote plant growth.

While the hemicellulose material is easily dissolved by a process known as dilute acid - catalyzed hydrolysis, the cellulose is tougher and remains solid.