Recent progress in direct production of furfural from lignocellulosic residues and hemicellulose

T Zhang, W Li, H **ao, Y **, S Wu - Bioresource Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
Furfural is a vital biomass-derived platform molecule, which can be used to synthesize a
wide range of value-added chemicals. Furfural and its derivatives are promising alternatives …

Furfural from pyrolysis of agroforestry waste: Critical factors for utilisation of C5 and C6 sugars

Q Zhou, Z Liu, TY Wu, L Zhang - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Furfural, a promising platform biochemical, plays an important role in the seamless transition
of the current fossil fuel-centric economy to a carbon-neutral future. This paper reviews the …

Comprehensive understanding of enzymatic saccharification of Betaine: Lactic acid-pretreated sugarcane bagasse

Y Chen, C Ma, W Tang, YC He - Bioresource Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
Green solvents, especially deep eutectic solvents (DESs), are widely applied to pretreat
biomass for enhancing its enzymatic hydrolysis. In this work, lactic acid was selected as the …

Proton transfer mediator for boosting the current density of biomass electrooxidation to the ampere level

Z Yang, S Wang, C Wei, L Chen, Z Xue… - Energy & Environmental …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Lack of catalysts that can simultaneously achieve high current densities and faradaic
efficiencies poses substantial barriers to the widespread implementation of biobased …

Efficient co-production of xylooligosaccharides, furfural and reducing sugars from yellow bamboo via the pretreatment with biochar-based catalyst

Q Yang, W Tang, C Ma, YC He - Bioresource Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
The research on the efficient use of biomass to produce chemical products has received
extensive attention. In this work, a novel heterogeneous biocarbon-based heterogeneous …

Improved enzymatic saccharification of bulrush via an efficient combination pretreatment

Y Chen, D Yang, W Tang, C Ma, YC He - Bioresource Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
Glycerol (Gly) was selected as hydrogen-bond-donor for preparing ChCl-based DES (ChCl:
Gly), and the mixture of ChCl: Gly (20 wt%) and NaOH (4 wt%) was utilized for combination …

Highly efficient conversion of sunflower stalk-hydrolysate to furfural by sunflower stalk residue-derived carbonaceous solid acid in deep eutectic solvent/organic …

L Gong, J Zha, L Pan, C Ma, YC He - Bioresource Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
Sunflower stalk was utilized as a source of raw material and catalyst for furfural production,
and efficient conversion of xylose-rich hydrolysate into furfural was developed in an …

Synthesis of furoic acid from biomasses by sequential catalysis with fish scale-rice husk-based heterogeneous chemocatalyst and dehydrogenase biocatalyst

Y Liu, Y Wu, YC He, C Ma - Industrial Crops and Products, 2023 - Elsevier
In this work, furfural was effectively converted to furoic acid (FCA) by using biological
macromolecules as raw materials in tandem reaction with chemical biological catalysts …

An efficient and sustainable furfurylamine production from biomass-derived furfural by a robust mutant ω-transaminase biocatalyst

J Di, Q Li, C Ma, YC He - Bioresource Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
Furfurylamine is a key furan-based compound for manufacturing perfumes, fibers, additives,
medicines and agrochemicals. It can be obtained by amination of furfural by ω-transaminase …

Enhancing enzymatic saccharification of sunflower straw through optimal tartaric acid hydrothermal pretreatment

Z Tang, C Wu, W Tang, M Huang, C Ma, YC He - Bioresource Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
Sunflower straw, a usually neglected and abundant agricultural waste, has great potential
for contributing to environmental protection realizing its high-value of valorization if utilizing …