Next generation biorefineries will solve the food, biofuels, and environmental trilemma in the energy-food-water nexus

Editorial: The Nonsense of Biofuels

(2012) Hartmut Michel   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Optimizing the economics and the carbon and water footprints of bioethanol supply chains

(2012) Andrea Bernardi et al.   Biofuels Bioproducts & Biorefining-Biofpr

Cellulose solvent- and organic solvent-based lignocellulose fractionation enabled efficient sugar release from a variety of lignocellulosic feedstocks

(2012) Noppadon Sathitsuksanoh et al.   BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY

New lignocellulose pretreatments using cellulose solvents: a review

(2012) Noppadon Sathitsuksanoh et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Engineering a large protein by combined rational and random approaches: stabilizing the Clostridium thermocellum cellobiose phosphorylase

(2012) Xinhao Ye et al.   Molecular BioSystems

What conservationists need to know about farming

(2012) A. Balmford et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Harmonising bioenergy resource potentials—Methodological lessons from review of state of the art bioenergy potential assessments

(2012) B. Batidzirai et al.   RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

Negative Report on GM Crops Shakes Government's Food Agenda

(2012) P. Bagla   SCIENCE

Valorization of Biomass: Deriving More Value from Waste

(2012) C. O. Tuck et al.   SCIENCE

Integrated Electromicrobial Conversion of CO2 to Higher Alcohols

(2012) H. Li et al.   SCIENCE

Constructing the electricity–carbohydrate–hydrogen cycle for a sustainability revolution

(2012) Y.-H. Percival Zhang et al.   TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Will common sense prevail?

(2012) Nina V. Fedoroff   TRENDS IN GENETICS

A vision for attaining food security

(2012) Alison Misselhorn et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

The bioenergy and water nexus

(2011) Shabbir H. Gheewala et al.   Biofuels Bioproducts & Biorefining-Biofpr

Considering the energy, water and food nexus: Towards an integrated modelling approach

(2011) Morgan Bazilian et al.   ENERGY POLICY

GM as a route for delivery of sustainable crop protection

(2011) T. J. A. Bruce   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Feeding nine billion: the challenge to sustainable crop production

(2011) P. J. Gregory et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Toward low-cost biomanufacturing through in vitro synthetic biology: bottom-up design

(2011) Y.-H. Percival Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Engineered ketol-acid reductoisomerase and alcohol dehydrogenase enable anaerobic 2-methylpropan-1-ol production at theoretical yield in Escherichia coli

(2011) Sabine Bastian et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Perspective: A new hope for Africa

(2011) Lee R. Lynd et al.   NATURE

Solutions for a cultivated planet

(2011) Jonathan A. Foley et al.   NATURE

Energy Efficiency Analysis: Biomass-to-Wheel Efficiency Related with Biofuels Production, Fuel Distribution, and Powertrain Systems

(2011) Wei-Dong Huang et al.   PLoS One

Food for thought

(2011) H. C. J. Godfray   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Economic and energetic analysis of capturing CO2 from ambient air

(2011) K. Z. House et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global food demand and the sustainable intensification of agriculture

(2011) D. Tilman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

What is vital (and not vital) to advance economically-competitive biofuels production

(2011) Y.-H. Percival Zhang   PROCESS BIOCHEMISTRY

Food and Biodiversity

(2011) H. C. J. Godfray   SCIENCE

Future Prospects for Cereals That Fix Nitrogen

(2011) P. H. Beatty et al.   SCIENCE

Comparing Photosynthetic and Photovoltaic Efficiencies and Recognizing the Potential for Improvement

(2011) R. E. Blankenship et al.   SCIENCE

Biosecurity and sustainability within the growing global bioeconomy

(2011) Andy W Sheppard et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Simpler Is Better: High-Yield and Potential Low-Cost Biofuels Production through Cell-Free Synthetic Pathway Biotransformation (SyPaB)

(2011) Y.-H. Percival Zhang   ACS Catalysis

Meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies evaluating the association of saturated fat with cardiovascular disease

(2010) Patty W Siri-Tarino et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION

A High-Performance Polymer Tin Sulfur Lithium Ion Battery

(2010) Jusef Hassoun et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Biofuel production by in vitro synthetic enzymatic pathway biotransformation

(2010) Y-H Percival Zhang et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Bioenergy: in search of clarity

(2010) Lee R. Lynd   Energy & Environmental Science

Microalgae as biodiesel & biomass feedstocks: Review & analysis of the biochemistry, energetics & economics

(2010) Peter J. le B. Williams et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Analysis of biofuels production from sugar based on three criteria: Thermodynamics, bioenergetics, and product separation

(2010) Wei-Dong Huang et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Global oil depletion: A review of the evidence

(2010) Steve Sorrell et al.   ENERGY POLICY

Renewable carbohydrates are a potential high-density hydrogen carrier

(2010) Y.-H. Percival Zhang   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY

Autotrophic carbon fixation in archaea

(2010) Ivan A. Berg et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Food waste within food supply chains: quantification and potential for change to 2050

(2010) J. Parfitt et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Energy-Poverty-Climate Nexus

(2010) C. E. Casillas et al.   SCIENCE

Feedstocks for Lignocellulosic Biofuels

(2010) C. Somerville et al.   SCIENCE

Food Security: The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion People

(2010) H. C. J. Godfray et al.   SCIENCE

Microbial Electrosynthesis: Feeding Microbes Electricity To Convert Carbon Dioxide and Water to Multicarbon Extracellular Organic Compounds

(2010) K. P. Nevin et al.   mBio

Effects on Coronary Heart Disease of Increasing Polyunsaturated Fat in Place of Saturated Fat: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

(2010) Dariush Mozaffarian et al.   PLOS MEDICINE

Biomimetic and Microbial Approaches to Solar Fuel Generation

(2009) Ann Magnuson et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Theoretical Maximum Algal Oil Production

(2009) Kristina M. Weyer et al.   BioEnergy Research

Bamboo saccharification through cellulose solvent-based biomass pretreatment followed by enzymatic hydrolysis at ultra-low cellulase loadings

(2009) Noppadon Sathitsuksanoh et al.   BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY

Challenges for Rechargeable Li Batteries†

(2009) John B. Goodenough et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Spontaneous High-Yield Production of Hydrogen from Cellulosic Materials and Water Catalyzed by Enzyme Cocktails

(2009) Xinhao Ye et al.   ChemSusChem

A sweet out-of-the-box solution to the hydrogen economy: is the sugar-powered car science fiction?

(2009) Y.-H. Percival Zhang   Energy & Environmental Science

Saccharification of a Potential Bioenergy Crop,Phragmites australis(Common Reed), by Lignocellulose Fractionation Followed by Enzymatic Hydrolysis at Decreased Cellulase Loadings

(2009) Noppadon Sathitsuksanoh et al.   INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH

Fuel cell and battery electric vehicles compared

(2009) C.E. Thomas   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY

Unsupported claims of ultrafast charging of LiFePO4 Li-ion batteries

(2009) K. Zaghib et al.   JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES

Synthetic biology and biomass conversion: a match made in heaven?

(2009) C. E. French   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

What is the maximum efficiency with which photosynthesis can convert solar energy into biomass?

(2008) Xin-Guang Zhu et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Growth pattern and photosynthetic activity of different bamboo species growing in the Botanical Garden of Rome

(2008) Loretta Gratani et al.   FLORA

A comparison of environmental benefits of transport and electricity applications of carbohydrate derived ethanol and hydrogen

(2008) R MELAMU et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY

Reviving the carbohydrate economy via multi-product lignocellulose biorefineries

(2008) Y.-H. Percival Zhang   JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY

Building better batteries

(2008) M. Armand et al.   NATURE

Use of U.S. Croplands for Biofuels Increases Greenhouse Gases Through Emissions from Land-Use Change

(2008) T. Searchinger et al.   SCIENCE

Land Clearing and the Biofuel Carbon Debt

(2008) J. Fargione et al.   SCIENCE