Natural biopolymers, a class of materials extracted from renewable sources, is garnering
interest due to growing concerns over environmental safety; biopolymers have the …

This review considers three aspects of the weathering of wood–natural weathering,
accelerated weathering, and simulated weathering. Natural weathering begins when …

To understand the effect of sulfuric acid-based phenoxyethanol pretreatment on the
enzymatic digestibility of bamboo, the changes of lignin/xylan content and their intercellular …

Investigating plant structure is fundamental in botanical science and provides crucial
knowledge for the theories of plant evolution, ecophysiology and for the biotechnological …

The possibility of applying biochar in mild torrefaction treatment to improve the
thermochemical characteristics of ground biomass was the focus of the study. Camelina …

The zwitterion functionalization of cellulose with lysine was achieved in a two-step synthesis.
The cellulose modification in each step of the synthesis was corroborated by FTIR and solid …

Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy and imaging combined with hierarchical
cluster analysis (HCA) was applied to analyse biochemical properties of Early Middle Ages …

This article reviews publications with the goal of understanding the role of hydrophobic
copolymers added to size-press starch as a means to make paper products more resistant to …

Background The formation of infection threads in the symbiotic infection of rhizobacteria in
legumes is a unique, fascinating, and poorly understood process. Infection threads are tubes …

Temperature is an important factor for the cambial growth in temperate trees. We
investigated the way daily temperatures patterns (maximum, average and minimum) from …