14-03-27 Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Joint BioEnergy Institute have engineered a bacterium to synthesize pinene（蒎烯） , a hydrocarbon produced by trees that could potentially replace high-energy fuels, such as JP-10, in missi...

14-02-26 A multi-institutional team reports that it can increase sugarcane's geographic range, boost its photosynthetic rate by 30 percent and turn it into an oil-producing crop for biodiesel（生物柴油） production. These are only the first steps in a bigger...

14-01-15 Solar energy has long been used as a clean alternative to fossil fuels such as coal and oil, but it could only be harnessed during the day when the sun's rays were strongest. Now researchers led by Tom Meyer at the Energy Frontier Research Center at...

13-01-08 Chemists at the University of California, Davis, have engineered blue-green algae to grow chemical precursors（前体细胞） for fuels and plastics -- the first step in replacing fossil fuels as raw materials for the chemical industry. Most chemical fe...

10-05-13 Understanding the key elements of biofuel combustion（燃烧，氧化） is an important step toward insightful（有深刻见解的） selection of next-generation alternative fuels. And that's exactly what Lawrence Livermore and Sandia national laboratories res...

10-02-20 An international team of scientists, including two from Arizona State University, have taken a significant step closer to unlocking the secrets of photosynthesis（光合作用） , and possibly to cleaner fuels. Plants and algae（海藻） , as well as cyan...