Cotton yarns with lignin coating as a protective layer against degradation in soil and reference material without coating. Photo credit, all images: DITF. The German Institutes of Textile and Fiber ...

Overcoming cellulose recalcitrance in woody biomass for the lignin-first biorefinery. Haibing Yang, Ximing Zhang, Hao Luo, Baoyuan Liu, Tânia M. Shiga, Xu Li, Jeong Im Kim, Peter Rubinelli, ...

Cotton production has for centuries had the major disadvantages of requiring a lot of water and pesticides, ... these fibers are mostly a mixture of cellulose, lignin, hemicellulose and pectin, ...

For example, Katalin Barta’s group at the University of Groningen can convert lignocellulose—a plant fiber’s intertwined matrix of lignin and cellulose—to a crude, but usable, mixture of ...

Second, lignin solutions became more viscous over time, requiring adjustments to maintain quality. And third, spinneret ...

Lignin, a by-product of the forest industry, can be used to produce sustainable materials that can replace traditional plastics. This has been revealed in a research project at the University of ...

Building blocks that are present in small amounts in the lignin of the bioenergy crop poplar are valuable platform chemicals that are easy to "clip off" during plant deconstruction.

Structural Evolution of Lignin Using In Situ Small-Angle Neutron Scattering during Catalytic Disassembly. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2024; 12 (6): 2241 DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.3c06368 ...

Researchers have developed a fuel cell that uses lignin, a cheap by-product from paper manufacture and one of the most common biopolymers. Researchers from the Laboratory of Organic Electronics at ...