Lignocellulosic biomass: understanding recalcitrance and predicting hydrolysis

A Zoghlami, G Paës - Frontiers in chemistry, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Lignocellulosic biomass (LB) is an abundant and renewable resource from plants mainly
composed of polysaccharides (cellulose and hemicelluloses) and an aromatic polymer …

The critical role of lignin in lignocellulosic biomass conversion and recent pretreatment strategies: A comprehensive review

CG Yoo, X Meng, Y Pu, AJ Ragauskas - Bioresource technology, 2020 - Elsevier
Heterogeneity and rigidity of lignocellulose causing resistance to its deconstruction have
provided technical and economic challenges in the current biomass conversion processes …

Valorisation of lignocellulosic biomass to value-added products: Paving the pathway towards low-carbon footprint

G Velvizhi, C Goswami, NP Shetti, E Ahmad, KK Pant… - Fuel, 2022 - Elsevier
Biofuel is the presently needed potential energy reservoir as an alternative to wearying fossil
fuel-based technology. Second generation lignocellulose is considered to be the most …

Valorization of bamboo biomass using combinatorial pretreatments

C Huang, Y Zhan, J Wang, J Cheng, X Meng… - Green …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Current studies concerning liquid hot water pretreatment (LHWP) usually focus on cellulose
saccharification or hemicellulose conversion, while the appropriate extraction and utilization …

Cascading of engineered bioenergy plants and fungi sustainable for low-cost bioethanol and high-value biomaterials under green-like biomass processing

Y Wang, P Liu, G Zhang, Q Yang, J Lu, T **a… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Plant cell walls contain the most abundant sustainable biomass resource for biofuels and
biomaterials on the earth. However, lignocellulose recalcitrance generally requires a costly …

Investigation of a Lignin-Based Deep Eutectic Solvent Using p-Hydroxybenzoic Acid for Efficient Woody Biomass Conversion

Y Wang, X Meng, K Jeong, S Li, G Leem… - ACS sustainable …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Deep eutectic solvents (DESs) are effective solvents for biomass conversion and have been
proposed as alternatives to ionic liquids (ILs). Herein, we first report an effective …

Effects of the advanced organosolv pretreatment strategies on structural properties of woody biomass

X Meng, S Bhagia, Y Wang, Y Zhou, Y Pu… - Industrial crops and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Plants have evolved their lignocellulosic cell walls through complex structural and chemical
mechanisms to protect itself against microbial attacks, which makes native lignocellulosic …

Production of nanocellulose using hydrated deep eutectic solvent combined with ultrasonic treatment

Y Ma, Q **a, Y Liu, W Chen, S Liu, Q Wang, Y Liu… - Acs Omega, 2019 - ACS Publications
Pretreatment approaches are highly desirable to improve the commercial viability of
nanocellulose production. In this study, we propose a new approach to mass produce …

Diol pretreatment to fractionate a reactive lignin in lignocellulosic biomass biorefineries

C Dong, X Meng, CS Yeung, TSE Ho-Yin… - Green …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Lignin-first fractionation has become a new biorefinery target to obtain valuable lignin
monomers toward the complete utilization of lignocellulosic biomass, but increasing …

Photoreforming for Lignin upgrading: a critical review

X Cheng, B Palma, H Zhao, H Zhang, J Wang… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Photoreforming of lignocellulosic biomass to simultaneously produce gas fuels and value‐
added chemicals has gradually emerged as a promising strategy to alleviate the fossil fuels …