Multifarious pretreatment strategies for the lignocellulosic substrates for the generation of renewable and sustainable biofuels: A review

A Kumar, A Rapoport, G Kunze, S Kumar, D Singh… - Renewable Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Currently major part of the world's energy requirements is fulfilled by fossil resources.
Severe economic and environmental problems along with their limited resources are still a …

[HTML][HTML] Study on microscopic physical and chemical properties of biomass materials by AFM

Z Lou, Y Zhang, Y Li, L Xu - Journal of Materials Research and Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
Biomass is created by living things like plants, animals, and microbes. It has the
characteristics of abundant reserves, renewable, biodegradable and environmentally …

Biomass characterization: recent progress in understanding biomass recalcitrance

M Foston, AJ Ragauskas - Industrial biotechnology, 2012 - liebertpub.com
The ever-increasing global demand for energy and materials has a pronounced effect on
worldwide economic stability, diplomacy, and technical advancement. In response, a recent …

Critical issues in sensor science to aid food and water safety

RH Farahi, A Passian, L Tetard, T Thundat - ACS nano, 2012 - ACS Publications
The stability of food and water supplies is widely recognized as a global issue of
fundamental importance. Sensor development for food and water safety by nonconventional …

Plant micro-and nanomechanics: experimental techniques for plant cell-wall analysis

I Burgert, T Keplinger - Journal of experimental botany, 2013 - academic.oup.com
In the last few decades, micro-and nanomechanical methods have become increasingly
important analytical techniques to gain deeper insight into the nanostructure and …

Sustainable valorization of water primrose with cow dung for enhanced biogas production

HTT Nong, Y Unpaprom, K Whangchai… - Biomass Conversion and …, 2020 - Springer
In this study, the effects of alkaline pretreatment (2% NaOH) of water primrose on its biogas
production efficiency and anaerobic co-digestion of cow dung were investigated. A scanning …

Fluorescent probes for exploring plant cell wall deconstruction: a review

G Paës - Molecules, 2014 - mdpi.com
Plant biomass is a potential resource of chemicals, new materials and biofuels that could
reduce our dependency on fossil carbon, thus decreasing the greenhouse effect. However …

Review of progress in atomic force microscopy

S Maghsoudy-Louyeh, M Kropf… - The Open …, 2018 - benthamopen.com
The study of biological samples is one of the most attractive and innovative fields of
application of atomic force microscopy AFM. Recent breakthroughs in software and …

Beating beats mixing in heterodyne detection schemes

GJ Verbiest, MJ Rost - Nature communications, 2015 - nature.com
Heterodyne detection schemes are widely used to detect and analyse high-frequency
signals, which are unmeasurable with conventional techniques. It is the general conception …

[PDF][PDF] Biomass breakdown: a review on pretreatment, instrumentations and methods

P Vyas, A Kumar, S Singh - Front. Biosci. Elite, 2018 - article.imrpress.com
Enzymatic breakdown of lignocellulosic biomass for liquid fuel production is a viable
alternative to fossil fuels, due to its renewable and environmental friendly nature. Naturally …