Light-Powered Enzymes: Chiral Molecules From Plants - Archyworldys

Light-Powered Enzymes: Chiral Molecules from Plants - Archyworldys

Light-Powered Alchemy: Revolutionizing Chemical Manufacturing with Photochemistry The chemical manufacturing industry is on the cusp of a monumental shift. Driven by the… The post Light-Powered Enzymes: Chiral Molecules from Plants appeared first on Archyworldys.

Using Light-Powered Enzymes to Build Clean, High-Value Chemicals

A pioneering research lab at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has achieved another milestone using light-driven enzymatic reactions to convert simple biological building blocks into valuable chemicals. CABBI Postdoc Zhengyi Zhang works in the Huimin Zhao lab at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) at Illinois. All credits: Julie Wurth/CABBI The researchers, part of the Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Inn…