Sentences with phrase «dioxide fixation»

The paper is titled «Nanowire - bacteria hybrids for unassisted solar carbon dioxide fixation to value - added chemicals.»

This is an important advance because nutrient uptake is a central property of ocean biogeochemistry, and in many regions controls carbon dioxide fixation, which ultimately can play a role in mitigating climate change.

To reinvent carbon dioxide fixation using such enzymes, Erb and colleagues carefully selected 17 enzymatic compounds from nine organisms — including bacteria, archaea, plants, and humans — bringing them together in a single, collaborative pathway.

Erb explained why it has been so difficult to date for scientists to create an efficient synthetic carbon dioxide fixation cycle like the one they demonstrated in the new study.

«Many approaches in synthetic carbon dioxide fixation have been driven by top - down «trial - and - error» approaches through direct implementation of new routes into the complex background of living organisms,» Erb said.

Not exact matches

Nitrospinae bacteria, which use the nitrogen compound nitrite to «fix» inorganic carbon dioxide into sugars and other compounds for food and reproduction, are responsible for 15 to 45 percent of such carbon fixation in the western North Atlantic Ocean, researchers report in the...

Supercritical carbon dioxide is also an excellent medium for its own fixation, as demonstrated by studies of its hydrogenation.

Research in this area seeks to make use of natural carbon fixation enzymes as well as engineered pathways to more efficiently transform carbon dioxide into stable liquids or solids suitable for long - term storage.

The efficiency of carbon fixation in land plants is limited by the properties of the enzyme Rubisco, which is relatively slow and also sometimes reacts with oxygen instead of carbon dioxide.

What a nuisance you are Michael; Gösta Pettersson is an eminent professor in biochemistry specialising on the fixation of carbon dioxide by plants and the carbon cycle research carried out by climatologists and others.

Carbon sequestration: The fixation of atmospheric carbon dioxide in a carbon sink through biological or physical processes.