Science news articles about 'fuel molecules'

  • 'Green' gasoline on the horizon

    ... use principles of molecular engineering to identify the best fuel molecules that might be produced from biomass, and then ... of catalytic and separation steps to create the desired fuel molecules," says Lobban. "That's really the core of our research ...
  • Team learns how cellular protein detects viruses and sparks immune response

    ... ) and an ATPase domain that consumes ATP, the cellular fuel molecule. Previous studies had shown that the CARD ... use of a fluorescent dye that, when attached to a specific region of a molecule such as RNA, glows with more or less intensity depending ...
  • Munich lab demonstrates diesel truck engine with barely measurable emissions

    ... produced by conventional injectors, only the outer layer of fuel molecules are burned, like an onion whose first layer has been peeled. The resulting exhaust fumes ...
  • Rutgers-Camden professor engineers E. coli to produce biodiesel

    ... fatty acids, which are used to make biodiesel. "Fatty acid molecules aren't that different from a lot of fuel molecules," says Lun, a Philadelphia resident. "Biodiesel is something ...
  • New molecular robot can be programmed to follow instructions

    ... of DNA, follows instructions programmed into a set of fuel molecules determining its destination, for example, to turn ... to this specialized movement is a so-called "fuel hairpin," a molecule that serves as both a chemical energy ...
  • Computational chemistry shows the way to safer biofuels

    ... Jorgensen. Chemically bio fuel is composed of extremely large molecules. As they degrade during combustion ... very precisely the degradation mechanisms for a bio fuel molecule and do it fast. "In order to find ...
  • A fragrant new biofuel

    ... microbes that digest the biomass and convert its sugars into fuel molecules. At JBEI, researchers are focusing on developing ... hydrocarbons that can be turned into diesel fuel. Fatty acids are the energy-rich molecules in bacterial and plant ...

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