{"id":202127,"date":"2024-12-22T02:26:21","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T08:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/cyanobacteria-research-unlocks-potential-for-renewable-plastics-from-carbon-dioxide"},"modified":"2024-12-22T02:26:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T08:26:21","slug":"cyanobacteria-research-unlocks-potential-for-renewable-plastics-from-carbon-dioxide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/cyanobacteria-research-unlocks-potential-for-renewable-plastics-from-carbon-dioxide","title":{"rendered":"Cyanobacteria research unlocks potential for renewable plastics from carbon dioxide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cyanobacteria-research-unlocks-potential-for-renewable-plastics-from-carbon-dioxide.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at The University of Manchester have achieved a significant breakthrough in using cyanobacteria\u2014commonly known as \u201cblue-green algae\u201d\u2014to convert carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2<\/sub>) into valuable bio-based materials.<\/p>\n<p>Their work, <a href=\"https:\/\/biotechnologyforbiofuels.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/10.1186\/s13068-024-02589-z\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts<\/i>, could accelerate the development of sustainable alternatives to fossil fuel-derived products like plastics, helping pave the way for a carbon-neutral circular bioeconomy.<\/p>\n<p>The research, led by Dr. Matthew Faulkner, working alongside Dr. Fraser Andrews, and Professor Nigel Scrutton, focused on improving the production of citramalate, a compound that serves as a precursor for renewable plastics such as Perspex or Plexiglas. Using an innovative approach called \u201cdesign of experiment,\u201d the team achieved a remarkable 23-fold increase in citramalate production by optimizing key process parameters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at The University of Manchester have achieved a significant breakthrough in using cyanobacteria\u2014commonly known as \u201cblue-green algae\u201d\u2014to convert carbon dioxide (CO2) into valuable bio-based materials. Their work, published in Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts, could accelerate the development of sustainable alternatives to fossil fuel-derived products like plastics, helping pave the way for a carbon-neutral [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}