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