Dependence of Biofuel Bio-refineries on Polymer Applications: The Outlook of Profitable Biofuel Opportunities

The strategy for production and processing of Bio-based nonpetroleum fuels from a variety of biomass is actively exploited in the recent years.

Bio-polymers like cellulose, starch, xylan, pectin etc. are renewables obtained from plants, algae and other biological sources that are being exploited for variety of applications in biofuels.

Technologies for biological/chemical processing of these polysaccharides to form fuels, platform chemicals and other value added byproducts to enhance process profitability can be the next breakthrough in biofuel commercialization.

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Role of Nanomaterials and their Applications as Photo-catalyst and Senors | A Review

Lack of environmental sustainability is a vital and growing problem due to the issues: such as climate change, pollution, and disturbances associated with biodiversity. A major cause of these environmental threats is pollutants in the atmosphere.

Semiconducting metal oxide nanostructures play an important role in developing smart materials that are well efficient for sensing and simultaneously destroy harmful chemical contaminants from our environment.

This review article highlights some recent advances of nano-science in the area of environmental hazardous contaminant detection by sensing followed by the remediation; focused on water remediation especially through photo-catalysis

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