Sentences with phrase «complex plant materials»

She and her students are using a protein to breakdown complex plant materials into simple starches.

This is one of the first steps in converting complex plant materials into simple forms that can be fermented into ethanol for fuel.

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U.S. rival DowDuPont is planning to break up into a Materials Science division that relies on in - house basic petrochemicals plants and a Specialty Products unit selling more differentiated and complex mMaterials Science division that relies on in - house basic petrochemicals plants and a Specialty Products unit selling more differentiated and complex materialsmaterials.

Humus is a complex organic substance resulting from the breakdown of plant material in a process called humification.

The starting material, the polysaccharides and lignin of the plant cell wall, are complex.

Continued research may allow HPFM to be used as a probe so, for instance, it would be possible to study the effect of new treatments being developed to save plants such as citrus trees from bacterial diseases rapidly decimating the citrus industry, or study fundamental photonically - induced processes in complex systems such as in solar cell materials or opto - electronic devices.

The exhibition, «Edward Hines National Forest,» introduces a site - specific installation that traces the material processing of trees, from plant to lumber and cellulose, to produce hybrid forms that expose the complex relationship between people, human - made objects and the natural ecosystem.

Rubisco is the enzyme that binds CO2 to plant material, on higher temperatures all the energy received goes into regenerating the photosynthesis complex of which rubisco is one part.

Plants and animals have evolved materials that astound us with their complex engineering on the molecular level.

This included fracking wastewater that state officials had allowed to be dumped at local sewer plants — facilities incapable of removing the complex mix of chemicals, corrosive salts, and radioactive materials from that kind of industrial waste before they piped the «treated» water back into Pennsylvania's rivers.

The mangrove forest's complex root systems, which anchor the plants into underwater sediment, slow down incoming tidal waters allowing organic and inorganic material to settle into the sediment surface.

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