Access to a wide range of plastic materials has been rationalized by the increased demand
from growing populations and the development of high-throughput production systems …

Solvents are important in most industrial and domestic applications. The impact of solvent
losses and emissions drives efforts to minimise them or to avoid them completely. Since the …

Lignocellulosic biomass has gained growing interest as a promising substitute for the
production of renewable and sustainable chemicals and fuels as the dwindling fossil-fuel …

Biomass valorization has emerged as a promising and sustainable means of
accommodating value-added chemicals. To produce such chemicals, various transformation …

Dihydrolevoclucosenone (Cyrene is its market name) is a biomass-derived solvent that can
be produced in only two steps from biomass, while being biodegradable, non-mutagenic …

The development of green solvents is one of the key tenets of Green Chemistry as solvents
account for the majority of waste stemming from the production of the chemicals on which we …

Biomass is the only renewable carbon source in the world and possesses a zero-carbon
footprint throughout its lifecycle. Biomass-based functional materials typically exhibit …

Cellulose-derived tetrahydrofuran-dimethanol (THFDM) can be converted over Pt-WO
x/TiO2 catalysts to 1, 6-hexanediol (1, 6-HDO) with up to 70% yield. This reaction involves …

We demonstrate a process to produce levoglucosenone (LGO) and 5-hydroxymethylfurfural
(HMF) from cellulose in up to 65% carbon yield using sulfuric acid as catalyst and a solvent …

The fabrication of simple and core–shell polymer microparticles is of great importance due to
their wide range of industrial applications, such as in the food industry, cosmetics, and drug …