Company Profile: Phytonix Corporation

Produces n-butanol and pentanol from photosynthetic cyanobacteria


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Categories Fermentation, Sugar / starch feedstocks
Competitors Joule Unlimited, Gevo, Butamax Advanced Biofuels, Green Biologics Limited, Synthetic Genomics, LS9, Cobalt Technologies, W2 Energy, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) - Liao Group, Algenol
Relationships Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) (Technology partner)
Old Dominion University (Technology partner)
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Phytonix uses specially engineered microorganisms capable of producing butanol grown in a special photoconverter, similar to...

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