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PAPERS OF NOTE
August 31, 2009
Bacteria, catalysts advance
biofuel efforts
* A polymer containing platinum efficiently
turns methane into methanol and can be reused repeatedly. See Solid
Catalysts for the Selective Low-Temperature Oxidation of Methane to
Methanol, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, September
1, 2009.
* A strain of bacteria produces useful amounts of butanol,
which can be used as a fuel. See Evolution
of solvent-producing Clostridium beijerinckii toward high butanol
tolerance, American Chemical Society National Meeting, August
19, 2009.
* Navy researchers are working on producing jet fuel from
carbon dioxide. See Catalytic
CO2 hydrogenation to feedstock chemicals for jet fuel synthesis,
American Chemical Society National Meeting, August 16, 2009.
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