Bioenergy
BIOFUELS
From bagasse to innovation
Companies are investing in technology to increase ethanol production
Technoscience
Where’s the lignin in sugarcane bagasse?
Where’s the lignin in sugarcane bagasse?
By Revisor
Corporate research
Flights of the Future
Embraer is investing in partnerships to develop biofuels and cabin innovations
Biofuel technology
Between sugars and genes
The development of new tools for ethanol production
bioenergy
From the genome to the factory
The Bioen Program helps to promote knowledge about biofuels
Ask the researchers
Ask the researchers
Does biofuel production affect food prices?
FAPESP history of VII
The rise of ethanol
Joint efforts of researchers helps to multiply the use of bioenergy
Cover
The voice of the scientists at Rio+20
How Brazilian research can help to the decisions at Rio+20
Bioenergy
Unexpected butanol
Researcher extracts fuel using vacuum and contradicts established paradigm
Public policies
Increasing demand for energy
Using idle land could expand biofuel and food production
Chemical engineering
Enzymatic route
New pre-treatments make production of second generation ethanol easier
Chemistry
Reduced friction
Polymer mixed into ethanol enables biofuel to run through pipeline faster
Microbiology
The artisans of ethanol
Discoveries encourage research into expanding alcohol productivity