One limitation of producing biofuel is that the alcohol created by fermentation is toxic to the microbes that produce it. Now ...

This occurs during the fermentation of plant biomass. The team focused on the fermentation of butanol, a biofuel with a high ...

Researchers from the University of Cincinnati and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory achieved a breakthrough in understanding the vulnerability of microbes to the alcohols ...

“Neutrons give you the ability to probe the interior of the membrane to help determine how the butanol is distributed,” said Hugh O’Neill, director of the Center for Structural Molecular Biology at ...

However, the solubility decreases as the length of the alcohol molecule gets longer, so butanol is less soluble than propanol. It may not mix easily, and two distinct layers might be left in the ...