From an anthropocentric point of view, human culture has been intricately involved in
harnessing the potential of lignocellulosic feedstock to bring the bio-competitive alternative …

Lignocellulosic biomass is a renewable source of energy, chemicals and materials. Many
applications of this resource require the depolymerization of one or more of its polymeric …

5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) and furfural are promising platform molecules which can be
converted to fuel intermediates and hydrocarbon fuels. Herein, one-step, direct conversion …

Significant effort has been expended toward the discovery and/or engineering of improved
cellulases. An alternative to this approach is utilizing multifunctional enzymes; however …

A combination of thermochemical pretreatment and biological digestion technologies is
usually required to overcome lignocellulosic recalcitrance and accomplish effective biomass …

Economic production of lignocellulose degrading enzymes for biofuel industries is of
considerable interest to the biotechnology community. While these enzymes are widely …

Background Renewable energy has become a field of high interest over the past decade,
and production of biofuels from cellulosic substrates has a particularly high potential as an …

Background Thermophilic microorganisms and their enzymes offer several advantages for
industrial application over their mesophilic counterparts. For example, a hyperthermophilic …

Findings from recent studies have indicated that enzymes containing more than one catalytic
domain may be particularly powerful in the degradation of recalcitrant polysaccharides such …

Nanocellulose has received considerable attention in diverse research fields owing to its
unique nanostructure-mediated physicochemical properties. However, classical acid …