Search Results - "Hafenstine, Glenn R."
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Performance-advantaged ether diesel bioblendstock production by a priori design
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (26-12-2019)“…Lignocellulosic biomass offers a renewable carbon source which can be anaerobically digested to produce short-chain carboxylic acids. Here, we assess fuel…”
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Kinetics and Reactor Design Principles of Volatile Fatty Acid Ketonization for Sustainable Aviation Fuel Production
Published in Industrial & engineering chemistry research (02-03-2022)“…Ketonization of wet waste-derived carboxylic acids (volatile fatty acids, VFAs) constitutes the first step of a process to catalytically upgrade VFAs to an…”
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Toward net-zero sustainable aviation fuel with wet waste–derived volatile fatty acids
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (30-03-2021)“…With the increasing demand for net-zero sustainable aviation fuels (SAF), new conversion technologies are needed to process waste feedstocks and meet carbon…”
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Multicatalytic, Light-Driven Upgrading of Butanol to 2‑Ethylhexenal and Hydrogen under Mild Aqueous Conditions
Published in ACS catalysis (06-01-2017)“…Microbes produce low-molecular-weight alcohols from sugar, but these metabolites are difficult to separate from water and possess relatively low heating…”
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Light-Driven Catalytic Upgrading of Butanol in a Biohybrid Photoelectrochemical System
Published in ACS sustainable chemistry & engineering (05-09-2017)“…This paper reports the design and preparation of a biohybrid photoelectrochemical cell (PEC) that can drive the tandem enzymatic oxidation and aldol…”
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Synthesis of Small-Molecule/DNA Hybrids through On-Bead Amide-Coupling Approach
Published in Journal of organic chemistry (20-10-2017)“…Small molecule/DNA hybrids (SMDHs) have been considered as nanoscale building blocks for engineering 2D and 3D supramolecular DNA assembly. Herein, we report…”
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Conversion of Ethanol to 2‑Ethylhexenal at Ambient Conditions Using Tandem, Biphasic Catalysis
Published in ACS sustainable chemistry & engineering (06-11-2017)“…Ethanol is a ubiquitous fermentation product well-tolerated by microbes, but purification from growth media requires multiple distillations or other energy…”
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Catalytic Upgrading in Bacteria-Compatible Conditions via a Biocompatible Aldol Condensation
Published in ACS sustainable chemistry & engineering (07-03-2016)“…Integrating nonenzymatic chemistry with living systems has the potential to expand greatly the types and yields of chemicals that can be sourced from renewable…”
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Solar Photocatalytic Phenol Polymerization and Hydrogen Generation for Flocculation of Wastewater Impurities
Published in ACS applied polymer materials (14-06-2019)“…Achieving global sustainability will require balancing encroaching climate changes while maintaining the existing quality of life. Using sunlight to purify…”
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Self-assembly and reassembly of fiber-forming dipeptides for pH-triggered DNA delivery
Published in Journal of polymer science. Part A, Polymer chemistry (15-01-2015)“…Hydrazone‐based conjugates of PEG‐dipeptide and DNA‐dipeptide were designed to form stable vesicles at neutral pH, break apart at mildly acidic pH, and form…”
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Experimental and computational studies of the production of 1,3-butadiene from 2,3-butanediol using SiO2-supported H3PO4 derivatives
Published in Chemical engineering journal (Lausanne, Switzerland : 1996) (15-06-2023)“…•Detailed studies of 2,3-butanediol conversion to 1,3-butadiene by MH2PO4 derivatives.•Computational studies were performed to gain catalyst design…”
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Performance-advantaged ether diesel bioblendstock production by a priori design
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (26-12-2019)“…Lignocellulosic biomass provides a renewable carbon source which can be anaerobically digested to produce short-chain carboxylic acids. In this report, we…”
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