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J Bioremediat Biodegrad, an open access journal
ISSN: 2155-6199
Biofuels Congress 2017
September 05-06, 2017
September 05-06, 2017 | London, UK
Biofuels and Bioenergy
6
th
World Congress on
Algononics: Integrating nanodots to enhance algal biofuels development
Muneeba Khalid
1
, Hussnain A Janjua
2
,
and
Michael Betenbaugh
3
1,2
National University of Science and Technology
3
Johns Hopkins University, US
A
lgal systems have the potential to alter the landscape of biofuels by enabling the direct capture of the sun and its conversion
to valuable biofuels and other co-products. However, there are a number of bottlenecks that limit algal capabilities and
have slowed the development and large scale application of microalgae. One of these is their limited light capture bandwidth
that can be restrictive and is based on natural photosynthetic capture mechanism. The improvements in light capture with
microalgae has potential to get the best of life sciences capability in conversion of light to chemical entities. The capabilities of
nanomaterials devices to capture the light available across a wider spectrum is emerging field. To study the impact of enhancing
light capture in microalgae was studied by supplementing Chlamydomonas reinhardtii cc503 with Green Graphene Quantum
Dots (GGQD). Intake of GGQDs within the microalgae was determined by TEM. Biological compatibility was observed by
non-toxic nature of GGQDs. There were not any morphological or chemical changes except for photo-quenching of GGQDs.
Despite of photo-quenching cells showed growth and increase in lipid production. Furthermore, investigation was done for
lipid and Fatty Acid Methyl Ester (FAME) upsurge and we found that increase in concentration of H2O2 might have caused
the enrichment of lipids and FAME. The results indicate specific relation between GGQDs intake and impact on electron gain
or loss for florescence quenching activity whereas improving bio-compounds production.
mckalitagu@gmail.comJ Bioremediat Biodegrad 2017, 8:5(Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2155-6199-C1-009