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Better Monitoring and Diagnostics Tackle Algae Biofuel Pond Crash Problem

On April 17, 2013, in Biofuels, Biomass, Capabilities, Energy, News, News & Events, Renewable Energy, Research & Capabilities, Sensors & Optical Diagnostics, Systems Analysis, Transportation Energy

Sandia is developing a suite of complementary technologies to help the emerging algal biofuels industry detect and quickly recover from algal pond crashes, an obstacle to large-scale algae cultivation for potential biofuels. Sandia is addressing the algal pond crash issue in three complementary ways: developing a real-time monitoring tool for algal ponds that can detect [...]


Cellular Membrane Bending by Protein-Protein Crowding

On March 7, 2013, in Biofuels, Biomass, CRF, Energy, Facilities, News, News & Events, Office of Science, Renewable Energy, Research & Capabilities, Transportation Energy

Cellular membranes are made up of lipid bilayers that can be highly curved, an essential feature critical for processes such as endocytosis, organelle synthesis, cell division, and intracellular transport. Current understanding suggests that specialized proteins are responsible for membrane curvature through two mechanisms. Membrane scaffolding by proteins or complexes that assemble into a curved shape: [...]


Engineering Alternative Fuel with Cyanobacteria

On February 27, 2013, in Biofuels, Biomass, Energy, News, News & Events, Renewable Energy, Research & Capabilities, Transportation Energy

Sandia Truman Fellow Anne Ruffing (8622) has engineered two strains of cyanobacteria to produce free fatty acids (FFAs), a precursor to liquid fuels, but she also found that the process cuts the bacteria’s production potential. She published her work on one strain, “Physiological effects of free fatty acid production in genetically engineered Synechococcus elongatus PCC [...]


ECIS Biosciences Featured in Top Trade Publication

On February 27, 2013, in Biofuels, Biomass, Energy, News, News & Events, Renewable Energy, Transportation Energy

The latest edition of International Innovation features a Q&A with Malin Young (Director, Biological and Materials Science Center) and focuses on Sandia’s biosciences work. Malin describes how the Biological Science and Technology Department is working to protect the U.S. from biological threats, and how its innovative approach to biofuels could provide solutions to future energy [...]


Biofuels Blend Right In: Researchers Show Ionic Liquids Effective for Pretreating Mixed Blends of Biofuel Feedstocks

On February 26, 2013, in Biofuels, Biomass, Energy, Facilities, JBEI, News, News & Events, Partnership, Renewable Energy, Research & Capabilities, Transportation Energy

Winemakers have long known that blending different grape varietals can favorably balance the flavor characteristics of the wine they produce. In the future, makers of advanced biofuels might use a similar strategy, blending different feedstock varieties to balance the energy characteristics of the transportation fuel they produce. A collaborative study by researchers with the DOE’s [...]


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