Ammam, Fariza

Aryal, Nabin

Lizak, Dawid Mariusz

Tremblay, Pier-Luc

Zengler, Karsten

Zhang, Tian

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Conversion of fatty acids to their corresponding alcohols by <i>Sporomusa ovata</i> using Microbial Electrosynthesis (MES) technology

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Conversion of fatty acids to their corresponding alcohols by <i>Sporomusa ovata</i> using Microbial Electrosynthesis (MES) technology

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