Current wet chemical methods for biomass composition analysis using two-step sulfuric acid
hydrolysis are time-consuming, labor-intensive, and unable to provide structural information …

Metabolomics is perhaps the ultimate level of post‐genomic analysis as it can reveal
changes in metabolite fluxes that are controlled by only minor changes within gene …

Pelletization of biomass reduces its handling costs, and results in a fuel with a greater
structural homogeneity. The aim of the present work was to study the strength and integrity of …

Spectroscopic characterization of both untreated and treated material is being performed in
order to determine changes in the biomass and the effects of pretreatment on crystallinity …

In this study, attenuated total reflectance-Fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) and Fourier-
transform Raman (FT-Raman) spectroscopy techniques were used to determine changes in …

Background Pretreatment is an essential step in the enzymatic hydrolysis of biomass and
subsequent production of bioethanol. Recent results indicate that only a mild pretreatment is …

Particle size and compositional variance are found to have a substantial influence on
ammonia fiber explosion (AFEX) pretreatment and enzymatic hydrolysis of lignocellulosic …

A protocol is described to isolate small quantities of highly purified cellulose for isotopic
analysis of 10–100 mg samples of secondary (Pinus sylvestris L.) and primary (Rubus …

The structure and morphology of cellulose extracted from wheat were studied. It was found
that the extraction process is effective and hemicelluloses and lignin can be extracted …

To optimize the enzymatic conversion of widely available lignocellulosic biomass-wheat
straw (WS), pretreatment facilitating the enzymatic saccharification process was first …