Biofuels and Carbohydrates Laboratory (Zhang Lab)

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My mission is to solve key problems associated with the sustainability revolution through out-of-the-box solutions, which are based on well-known technologies while look like crazy ideas.

Further readings:

[1] Zhang Y-HP*. 2009. A sweet out-of-the-box solution to the hydrogen economy: Is sugar-powered car science fiction? Energy and Environmental Science 2: 272-282 (PDF).

[2] Zhang Y-HP*. 2010. Renewable carbohydrates are a potential high density hydrogen carrier. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 35:10334-10342 (PDF).

[3] Zhang Y-HP*, Chun Y, Chen HG, Feng RL. 2012. Surpassing photosynthesis: high-efficiency and scalable CO2 utilization through artificial photosynthesis. ACS Symposium Series (Recent Advances in Post-Combustion CO2 Capture Chemistry), Oxford University Press, UK (accepted).

[4] Zhang Y-HP*, Ding S-Y, Mielenz JR, Cui J, Elander RT, Laser M, Himmel ME, McMillan JD, Lynd LR. 2007. Fractionating recalcitrant lignocellulose at modest reaction conditions. Biotechnology and Bioengineering 97(2): 214-223 (PDF). (Accelerated publication, #1 cited paper in 2007).