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Michael Thelen, Hannah Woo and Blake Simmons, Joint BioEnergy Institute

Caption: From left, Michael Thelen, Hannah Woo and Blake Simmons of the Joint BioEnergy Institute have determined how a rain forest microbe is able to survive in an ionic liquid used to pre-treat cellulosic biomass for the production of advance biofuels.

Credit: (Photo by Roy Kaltschmidt, Berkeley Lab)

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