June Issue of Biofuel Research Journal is Out!

Volume 5, Issue 2

BRJ's June issue features outstanding biofuel research, and perspectives across the journal's broad scope. The issue highlights important fundamental research in genetic engineering in biofuel production, green diesel production, and anaerobic digestion and as well as research and perspectives in application of nanotechnology in the biofuel industry. The editorial deals with the growing applications of nano-materials in different domains of the biofuel industry presenting successful examples of related applications. We hope you enjoy reading it.

Meisam Tabatabaei
Editor-in-Chief, BRJ

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IN THIS ISSUE

EDITORIAL

Towards nanotechnology-based biofuel industry
Abdul-Sattar Nizami and Mohammad Rehan

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Lipid accumulation from glucose and xylose in an engineered, naturally oleaginous strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Eric P. Knoshaug; Stefanie Van Wychen; Arjun Singh; Min Zhang

Magnetically recyclable nanocatalysts based on magnetite: an environmentally friendly and recyclable catalyst for esterification reactions
Vannia Cristina dos Santos-Durndell; Tailor Machado Peruzzolo; Geani Maria Ucoski; Luiz Pereira Ramos; Shirley Nakagaki

Start-up phase of a two-stage anaerobic co-digestion process: hydrogen and methane production from food waste and vinasse from ethanol industry
Grazielle Náthia-Neves; Thiago de Alencar Neves; Mauro Berni; Giuliano Dragone; Solange I. Mussatto; Tânia Forster-Carneiro

Green diesel production through simultaneous deoxygenation of palmitic acid and desulfurization of 4,6-Dimethyl-dibenzothiophene over commercial CoMo/Al2O3
Sunya Boonyasuwat and Jirdsak Tscheikuna

On the cover
The biofuel industry is rapidly growing with a promising role in producing renewable energy and tackling climate change. Nanotechnology has tremendous potential to achieve cost-effective and process-efficient biofuel industry. In this issue of Biofuel Research Journal, Dr. Abdul-Sattar Nizami (Associate Editor of Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews) and Mohammad Rehan (pp. 798-799) take us through the details of various nano-materials developed with unique properties for enhanced biofuel production/utilization. They emphasize that the way forward is to develop nanotechnology-based biofuel systems at industrial scale. Cover art by BiofuelResJ.