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U Alberta study shows for the first time that sunlight causes chemical reactions in road dust; singlet oxygen

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— In the study, the team study, investigated the photochemical production of 1 O 2 by size-fractionated road dust collected in Edmonton, Alberta and compared the reactivity of this substrate to that of Arizona test dust, Niger sand, and Cape Verde dust. Cote, Stephanie R. Schneider, Ming Lyu, Sherry Gao, Lin Gan, Adam J.

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U Florida team using fungi to extract cobalt and lithium from waste batteries

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It is unclear how many electronic products are recycled. We were watching the huge growth in smartphones and all the other products with rechargeable batteries, so we shifted our focus. The demand for lithium is rising rapidly, and it is not sustainable to keep mining new lithium resources. —Jeffrey A. Cunningham, Ph.D.,

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Comparative genomics study of industrial fungus seeks to better harness potential for biofuels applications

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Aspergillus niger, shown here with its DNA lit up in green, is a fungus that can be used on an industrial scale to produce enzymes or chemicals such as citric acid. The production process involving A. niger is thus a well understood fungal fermentation process. niger strain used in the study ( A. Source: PNNL.

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Tohoku researchers develop efficient hydrodynamic reactor for pretreatment of biomass

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Compared to a pretreatment system using ultrasonication and SP (US-SP), the new HD-SP system was more efficient for glucose and xylose production; both systems resulted in a similar degree of lignin removal, and neither generated the inhibitor furfural, while it was detected in dilute acid (DA)-pretreated biomass. 5b04375.

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