Current wet chemical methods for biomass composition analysis using two-step sulfuric acid
hydrolysis are time-consuming, labor-intensive, and unable to provide structural information …

Public interest in food quality and methods of production has increased significantly in
recent decades, due in part to changes in eating habits, consumer behavior, and the …

Bamboo is one of the mostly fast growing natural resources and has great potential to be
used as a valuable feedstock for biorefinery. The hemicelluloses, next to cellulose, represent …

The structure and fine structure of leaf and culm cell walls of sugarcane plants were
analyzed using a combination of microscopic, chemical, biochemical, and immunological …

Coffee husks are a major by-product of coffee production and are currently being
underutilized. The aim of this work was to chemically characterize coffee husks to allow for …

Polysaccharides are one of the most abundant natural polymers and their molecular
structure influences many crucial characteristics—inter alia hydrophobicity, mechanical, and …

In this study, a sulfated polysaccharide (S-CP 1-8) was obtained from Cyclocarya paliurus by
chlorosulfonic acid-pyridine method. S-CP 1-8 was chemical characterized and cultured with …

Mango seeds have been used to obtain components for nanocomposite films, namely,
starch and starch nanocrystals (SNC) from seed kernels, and cellulose nanocrystals (CNC) …

The effect of alkali viz., sodium hydroxide and potassium hydroxide, on the recovery of xylan
from sugarcane bagasse under two different conditions namely overnight incubation at room …

Xylooligosaccharides (XOS) were prepared from xylan-rich hemicelluloses isolated by
potassium hydroxide from sugarcane bagasse by hydrolysis with crude xylanase secreted …