INORGANIC MATERIALS BIOTECHNOLOGY: A NEW INDUSTRIAL MEASUREMENT CHALLENGE

New challenges and opportunities for industrial biotechnology

Industrial biotechnology has not developed as fast as expected due to some challenges including the emergences of alternative energy sources, especially shale gas, natural gas hydrate (or gas hydrate) and sand oil et al. The weaknesses of microbial or enzymatic processes compared with the chemical processing also make industrial biotech products less competitive with the chemical ones. However,...

Plant synthetic biology: a new platform for industrial biotechnology.

Thirty years after the production of the first generation of genetically modified plants we are now set to move into a new era of recombinant crop technology through the application of synthetic biology to engineer new and complex input and output traits. The use of synthetic biology technologies will represent more than incremental additions of transgenes, but rather the directed design of com...

The challenge of biotechnology.

THE NEW BIOECONOMY Industrial and Environmental Biotechnology in Developing Countries

Materials for the New Millennium- Synthetic Inorganic, Semi-inorganic, and Organic-inorganic Hybrid Polymers

The properties of mineralogical and covalent inorganic polymers are brieffy described in the introductory part. Glass is an important polymer made up of rings and chains of silicate units which contain negatively charged oxygen atoms neutralized by positive metal ions. Glass and few other mineralogical types of inorganic polymers, like aluminum oxyde, could be fabricated into fibers and used as...