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| Title |
From first generation biofuels to advanced solar biofuels
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Ambio, December 2015
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| DOI | 10.1007/s13280-015-0730-0 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Eva-Mari Aro |
| Abstract |
Roadmaps towards sustainable bioeconomy, including the production of biofuels, in many EU countries mostly rely on biomass use. However, although biomass is renewable, the efficiency of biomass production is too low to be able to fully replace the fossil fuels. The use of land for fuel production also introduces ethical problems in increasing the food price. Harvesting solar energy by the photosynthetic machinery of plants and autotrophic microorganisms is the basis for all biomass production. This paper describes current challenges and possibilities to sustainably increase the biomass production and highlights future technologies to further enhance biofuel production directly from sunlight. The biggest scientific breakthroughs are expected to rely on a new technology called "synthetic biology", which makes engineering of biological systems possible. It will enable direct conversion of solar energy to a fuel from inexhaustible raw materials: sun light, water and CO2. In the future, such solar biofuels are expected to be produced in engineered photosynthetic microorganisms or in completely synthetic living factories. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 858 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| China | 1 | <1% |
| Czechia | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 855 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 164 | 19% |
| Student > Master | 129 | 15% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 123 | 14% |
| Researcher | 67 | 8% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 31 | 4% |
| Other | 87 | 10% |
| Unknown | 257 | 30% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 116 | 14% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 104 | 12% |
| Engineering | 82 | 10% |
| Chemical Engineering | 81 | 9% |
| Chemistry | 59 | 7% |
| Other | 130 | 15% |
| Unknown | 286 | 33% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 19. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 August 2022.
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#1,812,367
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#318
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#31,443
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Outputs of similar age from Ambio
#8
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Altmetric has tracked 24,047,183 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 92nd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,721 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.5. This one has done well, scoring higher than 81% of its peers.
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