Yeah @mcw, I think this is tremendously interesting. I recently also saw a TED talk by two Canadians who found an economic way to destroy pthalates using bacteria! We are quickly picking up on using bacteria and fungi and I am really excited to see where biotech will take us. Cheers!
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You are talking about the one who found the bacteria in a bunch of plastic waste bottles right?
That was a really inspiring way to find out these digestive bacteria.
Yet, I am a bit doubtful about how effective it is, as doing these digestive process under a biphasic condition would be really slow?
Anyway, converting syngas to useful materials are really challenging, as most of the seminar I heard in the past few year all require precious metals (so people would say it is not environmental friendly, and expensive at the same time), and low TON is definitely another issue. So if cheap abutment metals like iron can do the job then i guess this would be perfect (bacteria use iron to do all sorts of oxidation too XD)
I am not sure if we are talking about the same. Here is the one I meant https://www.ted.com/talks/two_young_scientists_break_down_plastics_with_bacteria/transcript
Cheers!I actually linked an article above where they state the use of ZnAl and copper-copperoxide catalysts to produce ethanol in a one step synthesis. That sounds very intriguing. Here is the article http://pubs.acs.org.ezproxy.samford.edu/doi/10.1021/jp502828c
Oh! I guess the one I saw previously is this
I just quickly go through the acs paper and it seems more like a theoretical one to me. They seems not show the catalyst loading and the turn over number (seems not in the SI as well). I am not an expert in catalysis so I cant comment too much, but I still think this is really a “hot field” in the coming decades ~
No that one specific paper is only showing that it is possible. I linked another one in the post where they reported 83% efficiency. Though, I have to admit I did not read it in its entirety (after all, I only got so much time during the day). Yeah it will be interesting. My interest right now tends more in the direction of instrumentation, and nanotech. Dude, I really appreciate your interest and contribution! I sadly can only give one upvote...
Cheers!
This is the one i came across sometime ago but is quite impressive. Although using ruthenium catalyst, it is capable to do CO2 reduction (personally I think this is a pretty nice yet difficult to do CO2 reduction to give useful materials) with high TON. Just put the link here if you are interested
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201500939/abstract
Enjoy :D
That is also very promising. I am sure that these efforts will yield some very interesting procedures and applications. Cheers!