Heterogeneity and rigidity of lignocellulose causing resistance to its deconstruction have
provided technical and economic challenges in the current biomass conversion processes …

Lignocellulosic biorefinery based on sugar-platform has been considered as an efficient
strategy to replace fossil fuel-based refinery. In the bioconversion process, pretreatment is …

The two main strategies for enzyme engineering, directed evolution and rational design,
have found widespread applications in improving the intrinsic activities of proteins. Although …

Enzymatic saccharification of biomass is a crucial step in bioethanol production from
lignocellulosic biomass through sugar platform which essentially requires attachment of …

Even traditional pretreatments can partially remove or degrade lignin and hemicellulose
from lignocellulosic biomass for enhancing its enzymatic digestibility, the remaining lignin in …

Biofuels and-chemicals can be produced from carbohydrates in lignocellulosic biomass. For
an efficient total enzymatic hydrolysis of the plant cell wall polysaccharides, a pretreatment …

Biopolymer processing and handling is greatly facilitated by the use of ionic liquids, given
the increased solubility, and in some cases, structural stability imparted to these molecules …

Improvement in intrinsic enzymatic features is in many instances a prerequisite for the
scalable applicability of many industrially important biocatalysts. To this end, various …

Room-temperature ionic liquids (ILs) are molten salts at around room temperatures. The
current researches of using ILs for efficient pretreatment for lignocellulosic biomass are …

Lignocellulosic biomass is a most promising feedstock in the production of second-
generation biofuels. Efficient degradation of lignocellulosic biomass requires a synergistic …