Enclosed “non-conventional” photobioreactors for microalga production: A review

J Assunção, FX Malcata - Algal Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in microalgae, namely toward production of
lipids for biodiesel, upgrade of effluents, and synthesis of high added-value compounds …

Emerging microalgae technology: a review

SC Pierobon, X Cheng, PJ Graham… - Sustainable Energy & …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Cultivating microalgae has the potential to produce biofuels and bioproducts from solar
energy with low land use and without competing with food crops. However, despite these …

A leaf‐inspired luminescent solar concentrator for energy‐efficient continuous‐flow photochemistry

D Cambié, F Zhao, V Hessel… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The use of solar light to promote chemical reactions holds significant potential with regard to
sustainable energy solutions. While the number of visible light‐induced transformations has …

Roadmap for optofluidics

P Minzioni, R Osellame, C Sada, S Zhao… - Journal of …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Optofluidics, nominally the research area where optics and fluidics merge, is a relatively new
research field and it is only in the last decade that there has been a large increase in the …

Boosting Nannochloropsis oculata growth and lipid accumulation in a lab-scale open raceway pond characterized by improved light distributions employing built-in …

Y Sun, Y Huang, Q Liao, A Xia, Q Fu, X Zhu, J Fu - Bioresource technology, 2018 - Elsevier
Aiming at alleviating the adverse effect of poor light penetrability on microalgae growth,
planar waveguide modules functioned as diluting and redistributing the intense incident light …

Heterologous expression of mlrA in a photoautotrophic host–engineering cyanobacteria to degrade microcystins

J Dexter, D Dziga, J Lv, J Zhu, W Strzalka… - Environmental …, 2018 - Elsevier
In this report, we establish proof-of-principle demonstrating for the first time genetic
engineering of a photoautotrophic microorganism for bioremediation of naturally occurring …

Characterization of a designed synthetic autotrophic–heterotrophic consortia for fixing CO 2 without light

J Hu, Y Xue, J Li, L Wang, S Zhang, Y Wang, M Gao - RSC advances, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Microbial interactions are important for metabolism, and they improve metabolic substrate
types and metabolic efficiency. To discover microbial combinations with high CO2 fixation …

Elliptic Array Luminescent Solar Concentrators for Combined Power Generation and Microalgae Growth

N Talebzadeh, PG O'Brien - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
The full utilization of broadband solar irradiance is becoming increasingly useful for
applications such as long-term space missions, wherein power generation from external …

Dual gradients of light intensity and nutrient concentration for full-factorial mapping of photosynthetic productivity

B Nguyen, PJ Graham, D Sinton - Lab on a Chip, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Optimizing bioproduct generation from microalgae is complicated by the myriad of coupled
parameters affecting photosynthetic productivity. Quantifying the effect of multiple coupled …

Periodic harvesting of microalgae from calcium alginate hydrogels for sustained high‐density production

SC Pierobon, J Riordon, B Nguyen… - Biotechnology and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
High‐density biomass production is currently only realized in biofilm‐based
photobioreactors. Harvest yields of whole biofilms are self‐limited by daughter‐upon‐parent …