Team SSwEET was one of three finalists in NASA’s CO2 Conversion Challenge. The UC Berkeley team will receive more than $240,000 to improve its electrochemical process for making sugar in space using only carbon dioxide. From left to right, chemistry professor Peidong...Read more about Team wins competition to make space sugar in NASA competition
Professor Kristala L. Jones Prather. Photo courtesy MIT.
Metabolic engineers have a problem: cells are selfish. The scientists want to use microbes to produce chemical compounds for industrial applications. The microbes prefer to concentrate on their own growth.
On the Cover: Artist rendering of second harmonic generation spectroscopy in the extreme ultraviolet state. Illustration by Ella Marushenko. (Nano Letters, Vol 21, No 14)
