Lignin, a major component of lignocellulose, is the largest source of aromatic building blocks
on the planet and harbors great potential to serve as starting material for the production of …

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 …

The replacement of traditional and non-renewable resources by shifting towards renewable-
based strategies is a strategy implemented by the European Union for a circular economy …

The preceding decades witnessed hydrothermal processes being actively utilized all over
the world, specifically in the developed zones. Their optimum usage is primarily sought for in …

The various strategies for the valorisation of waste biomass to platform chemicals, and the
underlying developments in chemical and biological catalysis which make this possible, are …

The catalytic conversion of biomass and derivatives to chemicals has been the subject of
intense research efforts during the past decade resulting in a 20% annual increase in the …

Carbon plays a dual role as a catalyst or a catalyst support for chemical and enzymatic
biomass transformation reactions due to its large specific surface area, high porosity …

Sustainable production of energy, fuels, organic chemicals and polymers from biomass in an
integrated biorefinery is extremely important to reduce enslavement on limited fossil fuels. In …

Faujasite (X, Y, and USY) zeolites represent one of the most widely-applied and abundant
catalysts and sorbents in the chemical industry. In the last 5 years substantial progress was …

This Perspective highlights recent developments in methane conversion into different
hydrocarbons and oxygenates (methanol, its derivatives, and formaldehyde) with the …