UQ has developed a strong relationship with the Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders community. The AIBN has been instrumental in enabling indigenous science to be translated into indigenous enterprises
The process of producing biomaterials from gas, particularly biopolymers such as Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) and Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB), can be a reality to sequester carbon.
Liquid fuels and chemicals can be derived from syngas. Acetogenic bacteria have the ability to use CO and CO2 as carbon sources and CO and H2 as energy sources, leading to the production of acetate, ethanol, and 2,3-butanediol (BDO).
