News tagged with biocatalysts

Progress Toward a Biological Fuel Cell?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Biological fuel cells use enzymes or whole microorganisms as biocatalysts for the direct conversion of chemical energy to electrical energy. One type of microbial fuel cell uses anodes (positive electrodes) ...

Chemistry /

created Dec 30, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Synthetic protein mimics structure, function of metalloprotein in nature

Scientists have designed a synthetic protein that is both a structural model and a functional model of a native protein, nitric-oxide reductase.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1