A research team led by Professor Jaehoon Kim at Sungkyunkwan University and Dr. Dong Ki Lee at the Korea Institute of Science ...
What if the toughest part of wood could be turned into highly useful chemicals ...
A new zeolite material has shattered yield records for converting industrial lignin waste into aromatic fuel precursors by targeting the carbon-carbon bonds that have long resisted chemical breakdown.
Flemish scientists have been successful in producing bio-based chemical building blocks that can be used in the production of ...
Lignin, a renewable aromatic biopolymer with complex three-dimensional networks and diverse functional groups, represents a promising sustainable feedstock for value-added chemicals and fuels. However ...
A palladium-on-carbon catalyst electrochemically breaks lignin ether bonds and upgrades the fragments into cyclic chemicals ...
A new perspective from materials scientists outlines how the fundamental components of plants?cellulose, lignin, and hemicellulose?can be optimized to create low-cost, high-performance ...
Bob Kelly (l) and Jack Wang look over poplar trees in a greenhouse on NC State's Centennial Campus. Credit: Dee Shore, NC State University. Bob Kelly (l) and Jack Wang look over poplar trees in a ...
A study published in the Journal of Bioresources and Bioproducts establishes quantitative structure-activity relationships ...