#biocatalysts

[agaselectronicmaterials]

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[ghoooooooooooooooost]

i made a locked post abt working on biocatalyst a while back n now it's public bc we're at around 200 downloads yippiieeeeee!! <here>

we also ranked #15 in the fuck capitalism jam when there were 101 submissions which is. woah ok ! (originally submitted just for ossan jam which didn't have a ranking thing)

n if you haven't played it yet it's <here> thank u everyone who played smiles ^_^

[chipchopclipclop]

playing some games by my lovely friends lately

[michaeltillotson]

Biocatalyst (2024)

[vjovhal]

Biocatalyst market value is expected to be worth USD 950 million by 2032, According to the latest report by Global Market Insights Inc.

[solarpunkbusiness]

Scientists from Kyungpook National University in South Korea have developed a biocatalyst named KUBU-M12. This biological catalyst is inspired by natural enzymes that break down organic materials. Its unique feature? It decomposes PET at unprecedented speeds, even when the plastic is contaminated with waste.

[beardedmrbean]

Scientists in South Korea have developed a new method of decomposing one of the world's most common types of plastic, BusinessKorea reported. The breakthrough could have major implications in plastic recycling.

Polyethylene terephthalate, more commonly known as PET plastic, is one of the more ubiquitous types of plastic, used in everyday items such as plastic soda and water bottles, clothing, seatbelts, and more. It is usually made from crude oil and causes environmental harm at every stage of its production and life cycle.

In order to recycle PET plastics more efficiently, scientists developed a biocatalyst (a substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction) named KUBU-M12, which is able to break down plastic in a way that mimics how natural substances decompose.

They reported KUBU-M12 was able to achieve the highest-ever recorded performance for a biocatalyst for plastic decomposition.

"This is a groundbreaking technology that enables permanent recycling of even contaminated plastics that cannot be recycled," said research co-lead Professor Kim Kyung-jin of the Department of Biotechnology at Kyungpook National University.

While it is vital that our society moves away from traditional plastic products, instead embracing some of the many alternatives that now exist, there is still an astonishing amount of oil-derived plastic in existence, and it's not going anywhere on its own.

So, it stands to reason that we need ways to recycle this plastic efficiently instead of just letting it pile up in our landfills, in the environment, and in our oceans, where it is responsible for killing huge amounts of marine life every year.

In the United States, as little as 5% of plastic waste actually gets recycled, per Beyond Plastics — whether you go through the trouble of sorting it or not. While it would still require some amount of political will to actually make it happen, enhanced recycling technologies could spur some governments to improve those numbers.

[quirkwizard]

Greetings QuirkWizard, I was wondering if you possibly can make a quirk about P. Luminescens. It’s basically a bacteria that glows and eats harmful bacteria. There is a story where some soldiers on a battlefield had their wounds glow and they healed faster because of the bacteria being in their wounds eating harmful bacteria and allowing them to heal faster as well as be seen by allies so they could be saved… either way can you make a quirk based on it? Maybe a support quirk or simply a personal quality of life quirk… either way thank you and I love your blog and every post you make!!!

Thank you for saying that. Honestly, that's a pretty interesting story and I would be happy to make a Quirk based around it.

I see it working as an Emitter type Quirk allows the user to form what seems to be a bright blue glow from their body, similar to a deep sea creature. In reality, this is a blue enzyme the user makes. This enzyme will respond to nearby injuries, glowing brighter depending on their proximity to the user and their intensity. The user can then spread the enzyme to the injured party, surrounding the wound. This helps in the cleaning, stabilizing, and recovery of the wound. The enzyme acts like a cast and speeds up the healing process, working to keep the wound protected and cut the recovery time to a fraction of what it was before. This gives the user a good tool for support, using their enzyme to searched for injured parties and help them to recover. If nothing else, the bright enzyme can be useful in tracking weakened targets and exploiting whatever injuries they already have by pointing them out. Though this is only really useful in support and after a fight has already happened, as the enzyme only works to speed up the recovery and people will still need time to get better. Fire and extreme exertion on the part of the target can eat away at the enzyme. A possible name for the Quirk could be "Biocatalyst"

[ariapmdeol]

tierlist rework + added a few!

We played prey at the altar (mokadevs, versegm) tonight and we really liked it! short and sweet. Adorable art style, and did what it needed to do! the characters had a clear history with both each other and the environment, which I thought was really sweet.

Also started Biocatalyst (@/ghoooooooooooooooost, renbie)! We're maybe half an hour in? Absolutely gorgeous pixel art, and the horror aspect is really well done!! we're having fun so far :D I'll write an update once i finish!

About the changed tiers: I'm trying to find a good way to separate 'games that stuck with me, for one reason or another' versus 'games I had fun playing', so that's why a bunch of games moved down to 'liked'. it doesn't mean i dont like them, just that they haven't stuck with me the same way that the ones in higher tiers have. This is subject to change!

[mindblowingscience]

Scientists from the University of Greifswald have developed corresponding methods together with the German company Covestro and teams from Leipzig and Dublin, as recently published in the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition in two separate articles. It has thus been possible to establish a sustainable and environmentally-friendly process to recycle these polymers.

This helps to address the worldwide problem of plastic waste based on the example of these two synthetic polymers, which are produced industrially at large scale.

Plastics are currently indispensable for the production of construction materials, electric insulation, drinks and food packaging, textiles and many more applications. Unfortunately, the mass production of synthetic polymers, especially for packaging materials, has led to an enormous waste problem for the environment. The polymers polyurethane and polyvinyl alcohol contribute to approximately 8 percent of the European plastic production.

For several years methods to achieve an environmentally-friendly recycling of plastics have been the subject of intense investigations. This would not only relieve the environment, but also reduce the amount of petrol required to make new plastics chemically...

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[materialsscienceandengineering]

Degradation of plastic waste using newly developed biocatalysts

The plastic materials polyurethane and polyvinyl alcohol can now be degraded under mild conditions with the help of enzymes as biocatalysts.

Scientists from the University of Greifswald have developed corresponding methods together with the German company Covestro and teams from Leipzig and Dublin, as recently published in the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition in two separate articles. It has thus been possible to establish a sustainable and environmentally-friendly process to recycle these polymers.

This helps to address the worldwide problem of plastic waste based on the example of these two synthetic polymers, which are produced industrially at large scale.

Plastics are currently indispensable for the production of construction materials, electric insulation, drinks and food packaging, textiles and many more applications. Unfortunately, the mass production of synthetic polymers, especially for packaging materials, has led to an enormous waste problem for the environment. The polymers polyurethane and polyvinyl alcohol contribute to approximately 8 percent of the European plastic production.

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[biscoitocraft]

PLEASE PLAY THIS GAME! IT'S REALLY COOL! You can play it for free and finish it in little time too!!! (also it's gory, check the warnings before playing it! Thoughts in the tags)

i worked with @renbiegames on a horror vn for ossan jam 2024 !!!

it's about three (50+ yr old) coworkers trapped in their office building until they can "reveal the truth"

itchio page with warnings + more info <here>

[starlight-time-machine]

Week in Review

01/12/2025 – 01/18/2025

Sunday

Week 49 of missing Cipher Academy

The Pit of 100 Trials is pretty fun because I got to just zone out and listen to YouTube videos while going through each floor and Tattling all the enemies. The Gloomtail fight got a little dicey, but I managed to pull through without having to start the whole dungeon over.

Monday

I did the Pit of 100 Trials again to destroy that little blue thing (I employed my Prince Mush method and cheesed it with a million charges), collected all the badges, and went on an insane shopping spree complete with a spreadsheet checklist to get all the recipes…and man, how the hell were players supposed to figure out all these esoteric combinations without a guide? I can’t be too mad, though, because it was fun shopping around and I always love putting a spreadsheet together. Like I said in last week’s Week in Review, in the end TTYD was just decently fun for me, but it wasn’t anything especially mindblowing. I’ll give it a 7/10, and now I’m just really looking forward to replaying Origami King.

I was still in a video game mood, so I decided to go through most of the short free indie games I have saved on my laptop (much like I did about a year ago). First up was South Scrimshaw: Part One, a nature documentary style kinetic novel about alien whales. I really quite liked this one – the writing and the voice acting perfectly captured that documentary vibe, and all the art was gorgeous and a delight to look at. I especially loved the skeletal and other biological diagrams…the amount of detail and thought put into everything is amazing. I really fell in love with this little alien whale creature and its fascinating life cycle, and I can’t wait to see the conclusion in Part Two. 7/10

Then I played through 31st March, Midnight, but the writing voice was so cliché and amateurish that it was genuinely kind of a struggle to get through. It just has that “well THAT just happened” energy to it that I find off-putting, but I finished it anyway because it was so short. I honestly kind of wish I didn’t – as someone who already knows about the pitfalls of rainbow capitalism and respects visual novels as a medium, I was definitely not the target audience for this entire treatise about those topics with the punchline being that the game the protagonist is working on is one of those corporate April Fools visual novels. So to me it just read as painfully preachy and frankly a little annoying, so I’m sorry to say that I really didn’t have a good time with this one. 1/10.

Married in Red was a fun little “puzzle solving” game, I guess, with the puzzle in question being selecting the right options to get away with murder. But because it’s a game jam game, the story was fairly basic and reliant on well-trod and basic story beats. Nothing that happened particularly surprised me, but it was so short that I can’t really say it was a waste of time. It was just okay, I suppose. 3/10.

Biocatalyst had great art direction and atmosphere, but the writing was just so cheesy and generic. The big bad was already stereotypical enough, but then to throw in a casual line about how these three men managed to take down a mega pharmaceutical corporation in a single year just took me out of it completely and into the realm of utter fantasy. With how easily these three got their happy ending, it just cheapened the already tenuously basic moral dilemma that the ghost presented them. But whatever, they just wanted a simple and complete story so it’s fine. I guess I just wish the writing would live up to the fantastic character designs. 4/10.

I really gotta stop playing these short game jam horror/mystery games, man. There’s just never enough time for the writing to breathe and have anything interesting to say.

Tuesday

I finally trapped my friend in my house and sat her down to watch Malcolm in the Middle with me. Alongside Succession, Malcolm is one of my favourite TV shows of all time (which should say something about my fondness for dysfunctional families, I suppose). But whereas Succession ultimately leans into the Shakespearian tragedy, Malcolm in the Middle is just fun times throughout with a core of real familial love at its center. I’ve rewatched this show all the way through maybe like three times at this point in my life, but I’m always excited to watch an episode even when I know almost everything that’s going to happen. I just love this show so so so much. We watched the first three episodes today, and everyone was so cute…and even though some of the foundation was still a little shaky, I love that you can see the central thesis of the show shining through since day one. I’m so sad that Linwood Boomer never made anything else besides this show, but at least we got Malcolm in the Middle as his magnum opus. Luckily my friend ended up enjoying Malcolm too, so these are going to be a fun few months as we watch it together.

Wednesday

Whoops

Thursday

Oops

Friday

It’s Drag Race Friday and it’s a ball episode, which always makes my Project Runway-loving ass happy. The theme was pretty fun, and I liked seeing the queens just hang out and chat with each other. I thought the drama between Jewels and Onya was a little silly, but the incident between Hormona and Lexi was pretty amusing, and it all made for a solid episode. I also think Arrietty should’ve won over Sam, but whatever.

God dammit I tried to read the JK Haru light novel but the writing/translation was so awkward and stilted and lacking any sort of character that I couldn’t bear it and gave up immediately.

Saturday

Whoops again

[michaeltillotson]

Biocatalyst (2024)

[ultrezenzymes]

Glucoamylase in Starch Processing – Benefits, Applications, and Industry Impact

This enzyme breaks down large starch molecules to yield simple sugars such as glucose, hence an extremely important biocatalyst for the commercial processes of industries involving food and beverages, ethanol and bio-fuel production and several others wherein effective starch utilization is of essence.

Key Uses of Glucoamylase in Starch Processing:

Glucose Generation: Herein, through its hydrolytic action Glucoamylase converts the starch into glucose which forms an ideal feed-stock for syrups, high fructose molasses, sweetener preparations or even fermentation activities.

Ethanol & Biofuel Industry: This improves starch-to-sugar conversion, which helps to produce higher yields of ethanol. It makes the production of biofuel more sustainable.

Baking & Brewing: In baking, it improves dough texture and fermentation. In brewing, it helps in maximizing sugar extraction for alcohol production.

Dairy & Confectionery: It is used in some lactose-free dairy alternates and confectioneries to achieve desired sweetness and texture naturally.

At Ultrez Enzymes, we make high-performance Glucoamylase solutions that optimize starch processing while minimizing chemical dependency. From food and beverages to brewing and biofuel production, our enzyme solutions will help you achieve greater yields and higher quality.

Read also: https://ultrezenzymes.com/what-is-glucoamylase-enzyme-uses-in-starch-processing/