Unleashing the capacity of Rhodococcus for converting lignin into lipids

ZM Zhao, ZH Liu, T Zhang, R Meng, Z Gong, Y Li… - Biotechnology …, 2024 - Elsevier
Bioconversion of bioresources/wastes (eg, lignin, chemical pulping byproducts) represents a
promising approach for developing a bioeconomy to help address growing energy and …

Photoreforming for Lignin upgrading: a critical review

X Cheng, B Palma, H Zhao, H Zhang, J Wang… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Photoreforming of lignocellulosic biomass to simultaneously produce gas fuels and value‐
added chemicals has gradually emerged as a promising strategy to alleviate the fossil fuels …

Catalytic oxidation of toluene into benzaldehyde and benzyl alcohol using molybdenum-incorporated manganese oxide nanomaterials

H Shoukat, AA Altaf, M Hamayun, S Ullah, S Kausar… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Oxidation of toluene (an organic pollutant), into useful chemical products, is of great interest
nowadays. However, efficient conversion of toluene under mild and sustainable conditions …

Endophytes in lignin valorization: A novel approach

AJ Mattoo, S Nonzom - Frontiers in Bioengineering and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Lignin, one of the essential components of lignocellulosic biomass, comprises an abundant
renewable aromatic resource on the planet earth. Although 15%––40% of lignocellulose …

Mesoporous Cu-Doped Manganese Oxide Nano Straws for Photocatalytic Degradation of Hazardous Alizarin Red Dye

M Hamza, AA Altaf, S Kausar, S Murtaza, A Shahpal… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The present work reports the photocatalytic degradation of alizarin red (AR) using Cu-doped
manganese oxide (MH16–MH20) nanomaterials as catalysts under UV light irradiation. Cu …

Catalytic removal of alizarin red using chromium manganese oxide nanorods: degradation and kinetic studies

M Hamza, AA Altaf, S Kausar, S Murtaza, N Rasool… - Catalysts, 2020 - mdpi.com
Dye removal through photocatalytic degradation employing nanomaterials as catalysts is a
growing research area. In current studies, photocatalytic alizarin red (AR) dye degradation …

Streamlined synthesis of iron and cobalt loaded MCM-48: High-performance heterogeneous catalysts for selective liquid-phase oxidation of toluene to benzaldehyde

A Kalita, AK Talukdar - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
Hydrothermal synthesis of MCM-48 molecular sieves featuring the incorporation of both iron
and cobalt with Si/M ratios of 20, 40 and 80 (where M represents either iron or cobalt) was …

Exploiting the photocatalytic activity of TiO 2 towards the depolymerization of Kraft lignin

COL Crites, FG de Mendonça… - New Journal of …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Lignin is a promising renewable source of aromatic chemicals. Described herein is a new
photocatalytic methodology for depolymerization of oxidized Kraft lignin to industrially …

Electrochemical and thermal catalytic studies of Co based molybdenum oxide nanomaterials for CH bond activation

S Kausar, N ul Ain, AA Altaf, M Danish, A Basit… - Inorganica Chimica …, 2021 - Elsevier
Electrocatalytic and thermal catalytic oxidation of toluene has been investigated by
designing a series of Co 2-x Mo x O 3 (NA1-NA6). Synthesized nanomaterials were …

Catalysis by hybrid nanomaterials

LM Kustov - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
The state-of-the-art methods of synthesis of nanomaterials in many cases are not able to
produce controlled “nano-engineered” nanomaterials that include several sub-nanosized …