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Hybrid routes to biofuels

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Traditional methods for making fuels from biomass come in two forms — biological or chemical. The latest approach combines the best of both worlds, and heralds the advent of a second generation of biofuels.

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Figure 1: Conventional and hybrid biofuel production processes.

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  1. Lanny D. Schmidt and Paul J. Dauenhauer are in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 421 Washington Avenue SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA. schmi001@umn.edu,

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Schmidt, L., Dauenhauer, P. Hybrid routes to biofuels. Nature 447, 914–915 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/447914a

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