Mitigation of microbial biocontamination in cyanobacterial ethanol synthesis via alginate encapsulation
Xiangxiao Liu, Xiang Liu, Yanfei Pan, Huili Sun, Bo Liang, Jiahui Sun, Tianzhong Liu, Guodong Luan, Xuefeng Lu · 2026
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Description
Xiangxiao Liu and a large team tackle in 2026 a threat to making fuel ethanol with blue-green bacteria: germs that invade the tanks and crash the batch. Germ killers and pH tricks tend to harm the fuel makers too, or fail when invaders mix.
The team wrapped the cells in alginate, a gel from seaweed. The gel lets air, light, and food pass, but blocks touch with the invading germs. Bare cultures died out fast under a mixed germ attack and made no ethanol at all. Wrapped cells kept growing and making fuel in the same tanks. Once rinsed and grown again, they got part of their output back, so the shield can be reused.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Xiangxiao Liu, Xiang Liu, Yanfei Pan, Huili Sun, Bo Liang, Jiahui Sun, Tianzhong Liu, Guodong Luan, Xuefeng Lu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 45 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |