A5100424103- Lignin and Wood Chemistry
- Catalysis for Biomass Conversion
- Biofuel production and bioconversion
- Advanced Cellulose Research Studies
- Catalysis and Hydrodesulfurization Studies
- Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication
- Biochemical and biochemical processes
- Microstructure and mechanical properties
- Fermentation and Sensory Analysis
- Plant Gene Expression Analysis
- Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
- Aluminum Alloy Microstructure Properties
- Enzyme-mediated dye degradation
- Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
- Conducting polymers and applications
- Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications
- Carbon Nanotubes in Composites
- Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis
- Polymer composites and self-healing
- Thermochemical Biomass Conversion Processes
- Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
- Nonlinear Optical Materials Research
- Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry
- Neurological disorders and treatments
- Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes
Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University
2020-2025
Mongolian University of Science and Technology
2025
Wuhan University of Technology
2023-2025
Chongqing University
2017-2023
State Forestry and Grassland Administration
2022-2023
University of Wisconsin–Madison
2008-2020
KU Leuven
2020
Changchun University of Technology
2020
Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center
2018-2020
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2020
Formaldehyde protects and serves The lignin found in plants is a desirable renewable feedstock for fuels other useful compounds. Breaking down such strong, energy-dense polymer, however, requires pretreatment of plant biomass under harsh conditions. These steps often cause side reactions within the polymer itself, which lower overall yields monomers. Shuai et al. used formaldehyde during to block reactive groups that lead carbon-carbon linkages lignin. This simple step stabilized...
Abstract Plywood is widely used in construction, such as for flooring and interior walls, well the manufacture of household items furniture cabinets. Such are made wood veneers that bonded together with adhesives urea–formaldehyde phenol–formaldehyde resins 1,2 . Researchers academia industry have long aimed to synthesize lignin–phenol–formaldehyde resin using biomass-derived lignin, a phenolic polymer can be substitute petroleum-derived phenol 3–6 However, less attractive plywood...
Lignin, a major component of lignocellulosic biomass, is crucial to plant growth and development but impediment efficient biomass utilization in various processes. Valorizing lignin increasingly realized as being essential. However, rapid condensation during acidic extraction leads the formation recalcitrant condensed units that, along with similar structural heterogeneity native lignin, drastically limits product yield selectivity. Catechyl (C-lignin), which essentially benzodioxane...
Here we report that γ-valerolactone (GVL), a biomass-derived solvent, can be used to facilitate the mild pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass.
A novel cellulase-mimetic solid catalyst, sulfonated chloromethyl polystyrene resin (CP-SO3H), containing cellulose-binding sites (–Cl) and catalytic (–SO3H) was synthesized for hydrolyzing cellulose. Cellobiose could be completely hydrolyzed in 2–4 hours at 100–120 °C by CP-SO3H, microcrystalline cellulose (Avicel) into glucose with a yield of 93% within 10 moderate temperature (120 °C). The apparent activation energies the hydrolysis cellobiose Avicel CP-SO3H were approximately 78 83 kJ...
This article discusses the formation of robust C–C linkages in lignin and proposes ways to avoid it.
We report a new and robust strategy toward the development of high-performance pressure sensitive adhesives (PSAs) from chemicals directly obtained raw biomass deconstruction. A particularly unique translatable aspect this work was use monomer real biomass, as opposed to model compound or lignin-mimic, generate well-defined nanostructure-forming polymers. Herein, poplar wood depolymerization followed by minimal purification steps (filtration extraction) produced two aromatic compounds,...
Au–Pd nanoalloy in hydrophilic mesoporous poly(ionic liquid) shows high activity for oxidation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural to 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid with atmospheric O<sub>2</sub>.
Biorefinery and paper pulping lignins, referred hereto as technical contain condensed C–C interunit linkages. These robust linkages with higher bond dissociation energies are difficult to disrupt under hydrogenolysis conditions, which generally used for cleaving C–O bonds of native lignin in biomass or model linked compounds. Thus, selective cleavage release aromatic monomers high-value applications is a challenge. We report an effective catalytic system cleave such selectively mild...
Hydrogen bonding between CN and MCC enables excellent charge separation migration, leading to the outstanding photoelectrochemical properties of MCC/CN.
Efficient enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose in lignocellulose to glucose is one the most critical steps for production biofuels. The nonproductive adsorption lignin expensive cellulase highly impedes development biorefinery. Understanding lignin–cellulase interaction mechanism serves as a vital basis reducing such their practical applications. Yet, limited report available on direct characterization interactions. Herein, first time, nanomechanics biomacromolecules including lignin,...
Abstract Lignin deposits formed on the surface of pretreated lignocellulosic substrates during acidic pretreatments can non-productively adsorb costly enzymes and thereby influence enzymatic hydrolysis efficiency cellulose. In this article, peanut protein (PP), a biocompatible non-catalytic protein, was separated from defatted flour (DPF) as lignin blocking additive to overcome adverse effect. With addition 2.5 g/L PP in medium, glucose yield bamboo substrate by phenylsulfonic acid (PSA)...
A biobased lignin–formaldehyde (LF) adhesive was synthesized from industrially available technical lignins through hydrodeoxygenation followed by acid-mediated methylolation of aromatic C 2 /C 6 positions.
High-density bicyclohexyl hydrocarbon fuel additives were selectively synthesized from lignin-derived monophenolics and carbohydrate-derived furanics.