Lignocellulosic feedstocks are gaining increased popularity for novel industrial applications
because of their availability and bio-renewability. Using lignocellulosic materials, especially …

Deconstruction of cell wall structure is important for biorefining of lignocellulose to produce
various biofuels and chemicals. Oxidative delignification is an effective way to increase the …

Clean water scarcity combined with environmental impacts of municipal and industrial
wastewater necessitates the development of new technologies for clean water production …

The health benefits of fibre consumption are sound, but a more compressive understanding
of the individual effects of different fibres is still needed. Arabinoxylan is a complex fibre that …

Hemicelluloses, a major component of plant cell walls, are a non-cellulosic
heteropolysaccharide composed of several distinct sugars that is second in abundance to …

Various agricultural residues, such as corn fiber, corn stover, wheat straw, rice straw, and
sugarcane bagasse, contain about 20–40% hemicellulose, the second most abundant …

Biorefineries process bioresources such as agriculture or forest biomass to produce energy
and a wide variety of precursor chemicals and bio-based materials, similar to the modern …

The availability of xylan‐type polysaccharides, representing an immense resource of
biopolymers for practical application, is summarized. Xylans constitute 25–35% of the dry …

Treatment of dewaxed maize stems, rye straw, and rice straw with 1 M NaOH at 30° C for 18
h resulted in a dissolution of 78.0, 68.8, and 82.1% of the original lignin, and 72.1, 72.6, and …

Xylitol is a pentahydroxy sugar-alcohol which exists in a very low quantity in fruits and
vegetables (plums, strawberries, cauliflower, and pumpkin). On commercial scale, xylitol can …