Bright side of lignin depolymerization: toward new platform chemicals

Z Sun, B Fridrich, A De Santi, S Elangovan… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
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 …

Guidelines for performing lignin-first biorefining

MM Abu-Omar, K Barta, GT Beckham… - Energy & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The valorisation of the plant biopolymer lignin is now recognised as essential to enabling
the economic viability of the lignocellulosic biorefining industry. In this context, the “lignin …

A guide to lignin valorization in biorefineries: traditional, recent, and forthcoming approaches to convert raw lignocellulose into valuable materials and chemicals

F Brienza, D Cannella, D Montesdeoca, I Cybulska… - RSC …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Lignin is the most abundant source of renewable aromatics on Earth, yet its enormous
potential remains underexploited in current biorefinery and pulping processes. The …

The flying spider-monkey tree fern genome provides insights into fern evolution and arborescence

X Huang, W Wang, T Gong, D Wickell, LY Kuo… - Nature Plants, 2022 - nature.com
To date, little is known about the evolution of fern genomes, with only two small genomes
published from the heterosporous Salviniales. Here we assembled the genome of Alsophila …

Chemical modification of lignin derived from spent coffee grounds for methylene blue adsorption

F Taleb, M Ammar, M Mosbah, R Salem… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
In this work, spent coffee grounds (SCG) were treated using sulfuric acid hydrolysis in order
to isolate the sulfuric acid lignin (SAL). The reactivity of SAL was improved through …

The acetyl bromide method is faster, simpler and presents best recovery of lignin in different herbaceous tissues than Klason and thioglycolic acid methods

FC Moreira-Vilar, RC Siqueira-Soares… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
We compared the amount of lignin as determined by the three most traditional methods for
lignin measurement in three tissues (sugarcane bagasse, soybean roots and soybean seed …

Chemical and thermal characterization of potato peel waste and its fermentation residue as potential resources for biofuel and bioproducts production

S Liang, AG McDonald - Journal of agricultural and food chemistry, 2014 - ACS Publications
The growing demand for renewable fuels has driven the interest in the utilization of
alternative waste materials such as potato peel waste (PPW) which contains fermentable …

Characterization and elimination of undesirable protein residues in plant cell wall materials for enhancing lignin analysis by solution-state nuclear magnetic …

H Kim, D Padmakshan, Y Li, J Rencoret… - …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Protein polymers exist in every plant cell wall preparation, and they interfere with lignin
characterization and quantification. Here, we report the structural characterization of the …

Size-controlled and super long-term stable lignin nanospheres through a facile self-assembly strategy from kraft lignin

Z Yan, G Liao, X Zou, M Zhao, T Wu… - Journal of Agricultural …, 2020 - ACS Publications
In diverse fields, much attention has been concentrated on the preparation of lignin
nanospheres with various structures. Here we report a facile self-assembly strategy for …

Compositional profile and variation of distillers dried grains with solubles from various origins with focus on non-starch polysaccharides

MB Pedersen, S Dalsgaard, KEB Knudsen, S Yu… - Animal Feed Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
Corn-, wheat-and mixed cereal Distillers' Dried Grains with Solubles (DDGS) were
investigated for compositional variability among DDGS origins, ethanol plants, and the …