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 …

Changing the role of lignin in enzymatic hydrolysis for a sustainable and efficient sugar platform

C Cai, C Zhang, N Li, H Liu, J **e, H Lou, X Pan… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Hydrolyzing lignocellulose, the most abundant biomass raw material in nature, into
monosaccharides by enzymes and then transforming the sugars into chemicals and fuels by …

Recent advances in understanding the pseudo-lignin formation in a lignocellulosic biorefinery

SD Shinde, X Meng, R Kumar, AJ Ragauskas - Green Chemistry, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The formation of lignin-like structures by the degradation primarily of plant polysaccharides
has been observed after the severe thermochemical acidic pretreatment of lignocellulosic …

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 …

Complete conversion of lignocellulosic biomass into three high-value nanomaterials through a versatile integrated technical platform

D Tian, F Shen, J Hu, M Huang, L Zhao, J He… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
An integrated technique of hydrothermal pretreatment coupling with deep eutectic solvent
(DES) extraction was tailed to cleanly fractionate lignocellulose into three usable forms, ie …

Densification pretreatment with a limited deep eutectic solvent triggers high-efficiency fractionation and valorization of lignocellulose

G Shen, X Yuan, Y Cheng, S Chen, Z Xu, M ** - Green Chemistry, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Deep eutectic solvents (DESs) are intriguing for biomass fractionation, but high DES dosage
and low biomass loading make them challenging to be used in industry. In this study, a DES …

Acidic deep eutectic solvents pretreatment for selective lignocellulosic biomass fractionation with enhanced cellulose reactivity

D Tian, Y Guo, J Hu, G Yang, J Zhang, L Luo… - International journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
This work tailored a promising two-step pretreatment, ie, liquid hot water extraction followed
by mild acidic deep eutectic solvents pretreatment for clean lignocellulose fractionation …

Rice straw as a feedstock for biofuels: availability, recalcitrance, and chemical properties

A Satlewal, R Agrawal, S Bhagia, P Das… - Biofuels, Bioproducts …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The surplus availability of rice straw, its limited usage, and environmental pollution caused
by its inefficient burning has fostered research for its valorization to biofuels. This review …

Eco-friendly additives in acidic pretreatment to boost enzymatic saccharification of hardwood for sustainable biorefinery applications

Q Chu, W Tong, S Wu, Y **, J Hu, K Song - Green Chemistry, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Pretreatment of renewable lignocellulosic biomass is essential to produce fermentable
sugars and biofuels in a sustainable biorefinery. However, lignin repolymerization during …

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 …