Hydrothermal treatment of biomass feedstocks for sustainable production of chemicals, fuels, and materials: progress and perspectives

B Zhang, BK Biswal, J Zhang… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Hydrothermal process is an emerging technology that contributes to sustainable production
of biomass-derived chemicals, fuels, and materials. This technology uses hot compressed …

Photoreforming of waste polymers for sustainable hydrogen fuel and chemicals feedstock: waste to energy

M Ashraf, N Ullah, I Khan, W Tremel, S Ahmad… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Energy from renewable resources is central to environmental sustainability. Among the
renewables, sunlight-driven fuel synthesis is a sustainable and economical approach to …

Photocatalytic transformations of lignocellulosic biomass into chemicals

X Wu, N Luo, S Xie, H Zhang, Q Zhang… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
As the largest renewable carbon resource, lignocellulosic biomass has great potential to
replace fossil resources for the production of high-value chemicals, in particular organic …

Photocatalytic conversion of plastic waste: from photodegradation to photosynthesis

S Chu, B Zhang, X Zhao, HS Soo… - Advanced Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Plastic waste remains a global challenge due to the massive amounts being produced
without satisfactory treatment technologies for recycling and upcycling. Photocatalytic …

ZnIn2S4‐Based Photocatalysts for Energy and Environmental Applications

R Yang, L Mei, Y Fan, Q Zhang, R Zhu, R Amal… - Small …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As a fascinating visible‐light‐responsive photocatalyst, zinc indium sulfide (ZnIn2S4) has
attracted extensive interdisciplinary interest and is expected to become a new research …

Nanostructured metal phosphides: from controllable synthesis to sustainable catalysis

SH Li, MY Qi, ZR Tang, YJ Xu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Metal phosphides (MPs) with unique and desirable physicochemical properties provide
promising potential in practical applications, such as the catalysis, gas/humidity sensor …

Graphitic carbon nitride-based photocatalysts: toward efficient organic transformation for value-added chemicals production

A Akhundi, A Badiei, GM Ziarani, A Habibi-Yangjeh… - Molecular …, 2020 - Elsevier
Photocatalytic transformation of organic materials is widely known as one of the most
favorable procedures to fabricate value-added compounds. Achieving considerable …

Biomass photoreforming for hydrogen and value‐added chemicals co‐production on hierarchically porous photocatalysts

H Zhao, J Liu, N Zhong, S Larter, Y Li… - Advanced Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Biomass, a naturally abundant, sustainable and clean resource has great potential as an
alternative to replace the limited fossil feedstock for value‐added chemicals and fuels …

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 …

Transformations of less-activated phenols and phenol derivatives via C–O cleavage

Z Qiu, CJ Li - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Employing phenols and phenol derivatives as electrophiles for cross-coupling reactions has
numerous advantages over commonly used aryl halides in terms of environmental …