Planting seeds to unlock thorny ethanol enigma
New article about our work in big iron
A simulation model of lignocellulose.
Jeremy Smith and his fellow researchers have new fuel for understanding the barriers that keep biomass from becoming an economical source of ethanol.
Smith, director of the Center for Molecular Biophysics (CMB), an Oak Ridge National Laboratory-University of Tennessee (ORNL-UT) joint project, and his colleagues create computational models of lignocellulose. Those models could help us understand what makes this tough biomass component so difficult to break down into sugars for conversion to ethanol.... read on: http://ascr-discovery.science.doe.gov/bigiron/smith1.shtml
