{"id":4963,"date":"2014-08-18T07:12:57","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T07:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=4963"},"modified":"2014-08-18T07:22:19","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T07:22:19","slug":"bioplastic-from-microalgae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/bioplastic-from-microalgae.html","title":{"rendered":"Bioplastic from Microalgae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from Korean Institute of Science and Technology and Korean University have developed a technology to produce succinic acid from microalgae, in order to make bioplastics. The researchers used a genetically engineered bacteria <em>Corneybacterium glutamicum<\/em> that is capable of producing amylase enzyme to disintegrate starch in <a title=\"Bioplastic from Microalgae\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/still-a-new-technology-to-convert-algae-biomass-to-biofuel.html\" target=\"_blank\">algal biomass<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is an expensive and complicated process to manufacture succinic acid from lignocellulosic biomass obtained from corn and trees. The new technique developed by the Korean researchers helps out the situation, creating bioplastics in a cheaper and easier way.<\/p>\n<p>The research work is a part of the \u2018Korea CCS 2020 project\u2019, and sounds meaningful as the technique mainly focuses on the <a title=\"Bioplastic from Microalgae\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/microalgae-for-co2-utilization.html\" target=\"_blank\">utilization of CO2<\/a>, which is the major cause of global warming.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a title=\"Algal Bioplastics\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/algal-bioplastics.html\"><strong>Source<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from Korean Institute of Science and Technology and Korean University have developed a technology to produce succinic acid from microalgae, in order to make bioplastics. The researchers used a genetically engineered bacteria Corneybacterium glutamicum that is capable of producing amylase enzyme to disintegrate starch in algal biomass. It is an expensive and complicated process [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557,61],"tags":[646,99],"class_list":["post-4963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-plastics","category-biomass","tag-biomass","tag-co2-capture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4963"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4966,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4963\/revisions\/4966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}