Biofuel Illustration (IMAGE)

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Biofuel Illustration

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Researchers use gas chromatography to separate algal compounds with biofuel potential. They usually target fatty acid methyl esters. But Isochrysis also contains alkenones, which emerge after most researchers stop looking.

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Eric Taylor, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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