{"id":232502,"date":"2026-03-03T21:16:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T03:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/harnessing-microalgae-for-the-biosynthesis-of-molecular-crystals"},"modified":"2026-03-03T21:16:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T03:16:44","slug":"harnessing-microalgae-for-the-biosynthesis-of-molecular-crystals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/harnessing-microalgae-for-the-biosynthesis-of-molecular-crystals","title":{"rendered":"Harnessing microalgae for the biosynthesis of molecular crystals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/harnessing-microalgae-for-the-biosynthesis-of-molecular-crystals.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wagner <i>et al.<\/i> show that dinoflagellate microalgae can biosynthesize crystalline materials which would otherwise be difficult to make synthetically. Scaling this up could eventually offer a new industrial approach for producing such materials. [ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41587-026-03006-6\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41587-026-03006-6<\/a>](<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41587-026-03006-6\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41587-026-03006-6<\/a>) <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Crystalline materials for optical applications are synthesized in living dinoflagellates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wagner et al. show that dinoflagellate microalgae can biosynthesize crystalline materials which would otherwise be difficult to make synthetically. Scaling this up could eventually offer a new industrial approach for producing such materials. [ https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41587-026-03006-6](https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41587-026-03006-6) Crystalline materials for optical applications are synthesized in living dinoflagellates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":636,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232502","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\/636"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}