Wood Pulp Industry By-Product Valorisation for Acrylate Synthesis and Bio-Based Polymer Development Via Michael Addition Reaction
Available online 2 June 2023
It is crucial to adapt the processing of forest bio-resources into biochemicals and bio-based advanced materials in order to transform the current economic climate into a greener economy. Tall oil,...
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Efficient synthesis of alkyl levulinates fuel additives using sulfonic acid functionalized polystyrene coated coal fly ash catalyst
May 2023
In this study, sulfonic acid functionalized polystyrene coated coal fly ash catalyst (CFA@PS-SO3H) was designed and prepared by the post-synthesis method, which exhibited excellent catalytic performance...
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Super-anti-freezing, tough and adhesive titanium carbide and L-ornithine-enhanced hydrogels
May 2023
Hydrogels are highly porous three-dimensional crosslinked polymer networks consisting of hydrophilic polymers, employed most practically in medicine and industry, often as biosensors. Simple hydrogels...
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Antimicrobial and antibiofilm activities of pomegranate peel phenolic compounds: Varietal screening through a multivariate approach
May 2023
Pomegranates are rich in phenolic compounds and known for their antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and anticancer properties. The highest concentration of these compounds is found in the peel (exocarp...
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Pichia as yeast cell factory for production of industrially important bio-products: Current trends, challenges, and future prospects
May 2023
Yeast has been used as a cell factory for thousands of years to produce a wide variety of complex biofuels, bioproducts, biochemicals, food ingredients, and pharmaceuticals. For a variety of biotechnological...
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Inhibitory effect of a Chinese quince seed peptide on protein glycation: A mechanism study
May 2023
Non-enzymatic glycation can cause the formation and accumulation of advanced glycation end products (AGEs), and it poses great threats to human health. It is urgent to search for safe and efficient...
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Papaya peel waste carbon dots/reduced graphene oxide nanocomposite: From photocatalytic decomposition of methylene blue to antimicrobial activity
May 2023
Carbon dots (CDs) have gained unprecedented attention as a novel luminescent zero-dimensional carbon nanomaterial owing to their diverse industrial applications. Herein, we reported the sustainable...
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Bioprocessing of underutilized Artocarpus altilis fruit to bioethanol by Saccharomyces cerevisiae: A fermentation condition improvement study
May 2023
Raw materials availability needed for commercial bioethanol production is one of the challenges against its global adoption. Identifying rich, cheap, underused, and readily available starch sources...
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Effect of silica source on photocatalytic properties of Bi2O3/Bi2SiO5 heterostructure
May 2023
The Bi2O3/Bi2SiO5 heterostructures were obtained with various samples of silica as a precursor: on the basis of biogenic silica isolated from rice husk and rice straw and the silica of mineral origin....
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Frontier of digitalization in Biomass-to-X supply chain: opportunity or threats?
May 2023
The escalating climate crisis necessitates an urgent shift towards a sustainable business model. Under the context of bioeconomy, it has offered a promising alternative through its “Biomass-to-X” strategy...
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Soda pulping of sunn hemp (Crotalaria juncea L.) and its usage in molded pulp packaging
Available online 20 May 2023
Petroleum-based materials are often used in the packaging industry. However, the single use value of such products can be problematic with regard to proper waste disposal. As such, molded pulp packaging...
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A mild iodocyclohexane demethylation for highly enhancing antioxidant activity of lignin
Available online 16 May 2023
Lignin, as a natural antioxidant, shows great potential in food engineering and medicine. However, the inherent macromolecular structure, high polydispersity, and few phenolic hydroxy seriously limit...
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Utilization of residual fatty acids in matter organic non-glycerol from a soy biodiesel plant in filaments used for 3D printing
Available online 11 April 2023
Matter organic non-glycerol (MONG) is a considerable waste output (20%−25% of crude glycerol) typically landfilled by soy biodiesel plants. In this work, soy MONG was characterized for potential use...
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Multiscale wood micromechanics and size effects study via nanoindentation
Available online 11 April 2023
Wood as a material is a natural composite with a complex hierarchically arranged structure. All scale levels of wood structure contribute to its macroscopic mechanical properties. The nature of such...
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Preparation and characterization of tea tree oil-β-cyclodextrin microcapsules with super-high encapsulation efficiency
Available online 11 March 2023
This study aimed to prepare tea tree oil-β-cyclodextrin microcapsules using an optimized co-precipitated method. The impact of the volume fraction of ethanol in the solvent system for microencapsulation...
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Assessment of densified fuel quality parameters: A case study for wheat straw pellet
February 2023
An investigation was conducted to examine the impact of additive mixing with wheat straw (WS) for pellet making. This study manufactured seven types of pellets with different additive combinations to...
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Advances and challenges of cellulose functional materials in sensors
February 2023
As the most abundant natural polymer material on the earth, cellulose is a promising sustainable sensing material due to its high mechanical strength, excellent biocompatibility, good degradation, and...
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Adsorption Isotherm and Kinetic Study of Methane on Palm Kernel Shell-Derived Activated Carbon
February 2023
Activated carbon (AC) was synthesized from palm kernel shell (PKS) using different activating agents, i.e., steam, carbon dioxide (CO2), and CO2-steam, in order to analyze the impact of activating agents...
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Electrochemical valorization of lignin: Status, challenges, and prospects
February 2023
As the second most abundant component of lignocellulosic biomass and the largest source of renewable aromatic compounds, lignin shows great potential to replace finite, non-renewable fossil oils and...
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Lignocellulose pretreatment by deep eutectic solvents and related technologies: A review
February 2023
Lignocellulose is the main component of plants and has a wide range of sources. The high-value production of lignocellulose lies in the biorefinery of lignin, cellulose and hemicellulose. The advantages...
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Development and characterization of mycelium bio-composites by utilization of different agricultural residual byproducts
February 2023
Mycelium bio-composites was developed by incubating Pleurotus ostreatus fungi on different substrates from agricultural residual byproducts, including rice straw, bagasse, coir-pith, sawdust, and corn...
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Exploitation of the antibacterial, antibiofilm and antioxidant activities of Salvadora Persica (Miswak) extract
February 2023
The Salvadora persica (S. persica) L. chewing stick, usually known as miswak, is still being employed as an oral hygiene agent for plaque and gingivitis prevention. This study aims to assess the antibacterial,...
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In-situ polymerization of lignocelluloses of autohydrolysis process with acrylamide
Available online 11 January 2023
In the present study, the hydrolysates generated via autohydrolysis of spruce wood chips were directly used as feedstock for producing coagulants. The in-situ polymerization of acrylamide (AM) and lignocellulose...
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Nanocellulose and its derived composite electrodes toward supercapacitors: Fabrication, properties, and challenges
November 2022
With the increasing demand for sustainable energy storage systems, the development of various advanced materials from a renewable source is imminent. Owing to the advantages of high specific surface...
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Dynamical mechanical behaviors of rubber-filled wood fiber composites with urea formaldehyde resin
November 2022
Wood composites glued with thermosetting synthetic resins tend to show inadequate damping performance caused by the cured resinous matrix. Waste rubber maintains prominent elasticity and is feasible...
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