Sentences with phrase «in synthetic catalysts»

Not exact matches

«If you put humans as the target, even though you are not going to make a human baby, it will be provocative, it will be misinterpreted, but people will engage,» says Andrew Hessel, a self - described futurist and biotechnology catalyst at Autodesk in San Francisco, California, a successful software company that specializes in 3D design programs for architecture and other fields that has been exploring synthetic biology applications in recent years.

Australian scientists have paved the way for carbon neutral fuel with the development of a new efficient catalyst that converts carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air into synthetic natural gas in a «clean» process using solar energy.

It has triggered a small revolution in the world of synthetic chemistry, which had always believed that there was a limit to the number of possible bonds to build new catalysts.

Enzymes aid chemical reactions in living organisms like synthetic catalysts do in industrial chemical conversions.

Working in his lab in UD's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Rosenthal and doctoral student John DiMeglio have developed an inexpensive catalyst that uses the electricity generated from solar energy to convert carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas, into synthetic fuels for powering cars, homes and businesses.

Rosenthal says that if carbon dioxide emissions become taxed in the future due to continuing concerns about global warming, his solar - driven catalyst for making synthetic fuel will compete even better economically with fossil fuels.

Results: By grafting features analogous to those in Mother Nature's catalysts onto a synthetic catalyst, scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory created a hydrogen production catalyst that is 40 % faster than the unmodified catalyst.

They make sure of a synthetic approach to produce a 3D porous organic network in liquid - phase reactions in the presence of suitable solvents and / or catalysts.

Posted on 26 May 2015 in Biogasoline, Catalysts, Fuels, Solar fuels, Synthetic Biology Permalink Comments (7)

One thing they noticed was that the synthetic catalyst produced hydrogen faster in a viscous liquid as opposed to a free - flowing liquid.

Working in the Center for Molecular Electrocatalysis, a DOE Energy Frontier Research Center back in 2011, they made a synthetic catalyst that was 10 times faster than the natural one.

In addition, the synthetic catalyst can operate at conditions that would disable its natural counterpart.

«In his doctoral thesis, he is developing a realistic model of a catalyst surface, which greatly facilitates the conversion of carbon monoxide and hydrogen to synthetic fuel.

In order for aspartic acid to become the neurotoxic sweetener aspartame, it must undergo various synthetic catalyst processes, and then must be isolated, given a solvent, filtered and distilled.