Lignin to value-added chemicals and advanced materials: extraction, degradation, and functionalization

MJ Gan, YQ Niu, XJ Qu, CH Zhou - Green Chemistry, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Lignin is a green and sustainable feedstock for the production of chemicals and materials;
however, its utilization is still low. Over the past decade, remarkable progress has been …

Electrochemical upgrading of depolymerized lignin: a review of model compound studies

M Garedew, CH Lam, L Petitjean, S Huang, B Song… - Green …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
A sustainable bio-based future necessitates the utilization of all components of biomass
including lignin, which is the second most abundant biopolymer and a source of renewable …

A review of thermal catalytic and electrochemical hydrogenation approaches for converting biomass-derived compounds to high-value chemicals and fuels

L Zhang, TU Rao, J Wang, D Ren… - Fuel Processing …, 2022 - Elsevier
Major global issues such as greenhouse gas emissions and the excessive use of fossil fuels
lead to looking for sustainable and clean energy resources. Lignocellulosic biomass is a …

Electrocatalytic valorization of lignocellulose-derived aromatics at industrial-scale current densities

T Peng, W Zhang, B Liang, G Lian, Y Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Electrocatalytic hydrogenation of lignocellulosic bio-oil to value-added chemicals offers an
attractive avenue to use the increasing intermittent renewable electricity and biomass …

Interfacial processes in electrochemical energy systems

M Wang, Z Feng - Chemical Communications, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Electrochemical energy systems such as batteries, water electrolyzers, and fuel cells are
considered as promising and sustainable energy storage and conversion devices due to …

In Situ Generation of Flash Graphene Supported Spherical Bismuth Nanoparticles in Less than 200 ms for Highly Selective Carbon Dioxide Electroreduction

M Wang, H Wang, Y Gu, M Zhu, M Kumar… - ACS Materials …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Flash Joule heating (FJH) method is an emerging and powerful technique that has exhibited
great potential in various domains. Herein, we successfully prepared flash graphene (FG) …

Electroreductive upgradation of biomass into high-value chemicals and energy-intensive biofuels

K Wang, Z Li, Z Guo, J Huang, T Liu, M Zhou, J Hu… - Green …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Biomass has always been regarded as a latent resource owing to the lack of competitive
technology to convert it into an active substance. Electroreduction is considered as a …

Recent progress in electrochemical upgrading of bio-oil model compounds and bio-oils to renewable fuels and platform chemicals

JR Page, Z Manfredi, S Bliznakov, JA Valla - Materials, 2023 - mdpi.com
Sustainable production of renewable carbon-based fuels and chemicals remains a
necessary but immense challenge in the fight against climate change. Bio-oil derived from …

Electrochemical extraction of methanol from lignin under mild conditions

T Hibino, K Kobayashi, D Zhou, S Chen… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2024 - Elsevier
We report an electrochemical approach to extract methanol from lignin with a maximum
efficiency of 95% under mild conditions of ambient pressure and a temperature of 75° C …

Integrated electrosynthesis and biosynthesis for the production of adipic acid from lignin-derived phenols

MC Morejón, A Franz, R Karande, F Harnisch - Green Chemistry, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
We show that adipic acid (AA), a major building block for polyamides like Nylon-6, 6, can be
synthesized from lignin-derived feedstock by combining electrochemical hydrogenation with …