Methanol is metabolized into the natural gas methane by many microbes living under Earth’s surface, but its source has been unclear. It emerges that some bacteria convert formate molecules into ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Since water is both a product and a common reactant impurity in the (partial) methanol ...

School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, People’s Republic of China ...