Corn Stover Transformed Into Biodegradable Composites and Bacterial Nanocellulose
Researchers built three additive-free corn stover biocomposites with tunable degradation and upcycled their hydrolysates into bacterial nanocellulose.
Tag: circular bioeconomy
Plant waste enzymes and nanozymes team up to break down pesticides
A new review proposes combining enzymes fermented from agricultural waste with artificial nanozymes to degrade persistent pesticides such as chlorpyrifos ...
Plants and microbes could turn contaminated soil cleanup into resource recovery
A new review proposes treating phytoremediation biomass as a resource for energy, fertilisers, and metals rather than waste.
Diatoms Strip Silicon from Geothermal Brine While Keeping Lithium and Making Omega-3s
A laboratory study shows the marine diatom Halamphora sp. can remove up to 97 percent of dissolved silicon from geothermal ...
Digestate Delivers Strongest Overall Wheat Performance, Field Trial Shows
A two-season Indian field trial found that moderate solid-digestate supplementation delivered the best overall combination of wheat yield, soil fertility, ...
Vietnam’s Rice Fields Could Feed a New Generation of Biorefineries
A new review maps how Vietnam's more than 60 million tonnes of annual agricultural residue could be bioconverted into ethanol, ...
Green Nanotechnology Turns Biopolymers Into Antimicrobial Food Packaging
A new review published in Frontiers in Industrial Microbiology maps out how green nanotechnology and biopolymer science are converging to ...
Microbes Are More Than Factories: Why Industrial Microbiology Needs a Regenerative Reboot
A new opinion article argues that industrial microbiology's factory metaphor and linear metrics are hiding the regenerative value of microbial ...
Green Biotech’s Billion-Dollar Problem Has a Three-Gate Fix
A new framework proposes matching specific financial instruments to three stages of biotechnological development, from early R&D subsidies to Contracts ...
Waste Sugarcane Bagasse Turned Into Vitamin B2 by a Bacteria Found in a Kolkata Dump
Researchers in India have shown that a bacterium isolated from a Kolkata dumping ground can convert sugarcane bagasse waste into ...
Cafeteria Wastewater Meets Light Stress: Microalga Turns Kitchen Runoff Into Biodiesel While Cleaning It
The choice of cafeteria wastewater as a cultivation substrate deserves particular attention, because food-service effluents differ in composition from typical ...
Ripening Rewrites Banana Peel Fiber: Green Stage Wins for Function, Yellow Stage for Gut Bacteria
New research shows that the ripening stage of banana peel dramatically changes the structure, function, and prebiotic power of fiber ...
Distillation Waste From Immortelle Plants Could Become Antioxidant-Rich Functional Teas
Scientists have shown that the biomass left over after steam-distilling immortelle for essential oil retains nearly all of its water-extractable ...
Temperate Forests Drive Wood Demand, Climate Mitigation
In an era defined by escalating climate challenges and surging demand for sustainable resources, temperate forests have emerged as both ...
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