• This xylem contains cellulose, lignin, and hemicellulose. (bartleby.com)
  • These higher order structures include considerations such as overall plant anatomy, cell wall thickness, covalent and non-covalent interactions between macromolecules (cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin) as well as distribution of these macromolecules within the cell wall matrix. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The delignification of lignocellulosic biomass makes its fractions (cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin) susceptible to easier transformation to many different commodities like energy, chemicals, and materials that could be produced using the biorefinery concept. (encyclopedia.pub)
  • It mainly consists of sugar polymers (cellulose and hemicellulose) and lignin [ 2 ] . (encyclopedia.pub)
  • Lignin is one of the three primary components of LC biomass which, protects cellulose and hemicellulose by providing mechanical strength but also hydrophobic and indigestible properties to plant cell walls [ 5 ] [ 6 ] . (encyclopedia.pub)
  • As a result of complicated structure and molecular interactions with other components like hemicellulose, dissolution of the natural lignin in wood is very complicated and money consuming procedure. (encyclopedia.pub)
  • Lignin together with cellulose and hemicellulose are the major cell wall components of the fibers of all wood and grass species. (bvsalud.org)
  • However, lignin is a raw material that is more difficult to break down than cellulose or hemicellulose - the other primary components of biomass. (lu.se)
  • My colleague next door, Peter Deuss , has for some time been working on new mild methods of extracting lignin from biomass. (raffalab.com)
  • This basic idea is not new, but one major issue is that the starting lignin is usually an ill-defined material, extracted from lignocellulosic biomass with harsh methods, that generally disrupt the native structure of lignin. (raffalab.com)
  • We try to develop sustainable production processes from natural biomass', explains Professor Crestini, who came to Ca' Foscari in 2019 with the research group, ' PPM - Natural Polyphenols Chemistry & Material Science Laboratory' . (unive.it)
  • Biomass by virtue of its nature is comprised of various recalcitrant polymers and cellulose is one of them, which can be used for the generation of various platform chemicals. (intechopen.com)
  • Biorefineries are facilities that convert renewable biomass into biofuels, chemicals, and materials such as plastics and polymers [ 2 ]. (intechopen.com)
  • In 2018, a team surrounding Katalin Barta , from the University of Graz in Austria, reported a reductive catalytic fractionation strategy that combined biomass fractionation and lignin depolymerisation to produce dihydroconiferyl alcohol and dihydrosinapyl alcohol from softwood and hardwood, respectively. (chemistryworld.com)
  • Lignin is a natural polymer, one that has an abundant and renewable resource in biomass. (encyclopedia.pub)
  • An efficient low-cost technique is required to remove and recover the lignin from biomass to gain enable easier access to the biomass polysaccharides in order to produce different products from lignin [ 12 ] . (encyclopedia.pub)
  • Due to the complexed structure of cell wall microfibrils in LC biomass, the immaculate separation of celluloses and lignin resulting minimal degradation of polymers is a great challenge [ 11 ] . (encyclopedia.pub)
  • Among the various reported biomass pretreatment technologies, pretreatment with ionic liquids (ILs) has shown the most feasible results, especially in a sense of lignin separation [ 11 ] . (encyclopedia.pub)
  • Lignin separation from the LC biomass is carried out by applying various pretreatment processes [ 15 ] [ 16 ] . (encyclopedia.pub)
  • Lignin is a heterogeneous polymer which makes up a large proportion of (non-marine) biomass. (lu.se)
  • These results contribute to a better more biomass-derived carbohydrates are also used for produc- understanding of the aromatic metabolism of P. putida in tion of chemicals, a further valorization of lignin is an essential terms of growth and uptake rates, which will be helpful for component. (lu.se)
  • With this investment, the startup will scale up their technology for the production of 100% natural LignoBase®, ultrafine, high quality lignin particles that will be primarily offered as functional ingredient in cosmetics and replace harmful fossil-based materials. (htgf.de)
  • For the first time, LignoPure will be able to deliver high-quality lignin for cosmetics on ton-scale. (htgf.de)
  • For cellulosic biofuels processes, suitable characterization of the lignin remaining within the cell wall and correlation of quantified properties of lignin to cell wall polysaccharide enzymatic deconstruction is underrepresented in the literature. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The main focus of this work is to use grasses with a diverse range of lignin properties, and applying multiple lignin characterization platforms, attempt to correlate the differences in these lignin properties to the susceptibility to alkaline hydrogen peroxide (AHP) pretreatment and subsequent enzymatic deconstruction. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This work focused on providing a molecular understanding of the way the polymeric properties of kraft lignin and its derivatives are affected by various thermal treatments. (ncsu.edu)
  • This information was then correlated with the polymeric properties of the materials (glass transition temperature ( T g), molecular weight characteristics, and thermal stability) for a series of selectively and progressively derivatized softwood kraft lignin samples. (ncsu.edu)
  • Softwood kraft lignin was highly susceptible to thermally induced reactions that caused its molecular characteristics to be severely altered with the concomitant formation of irreversible cross-linking. (ncsu.edu)
  • However, by fully methylating the phenolic OH groups from within the structure of softwood kraft lignin, the thermal stability of these materials was dramatically enhanced and their T g reduced. (ncsu.edu)
  • Vanillin, 4-hydroxybenzoate, and benzoate were pref- nin, kraft lignin, is almost exclusively used as a fuel in the erentially consumed first, whereas ferulate was always the last recovery boilers. (lu.se)
  • To try it out, they mixed TiO 2 nanoparticles with solutions of several different types of lignin, including water- and organic-soluble forms. (acs.org)
  • Lignin is therefore mainly used today as fuel in the self-reliant energy supply of the pulp mills themselves, but certain types of lignin, known as lignosulfonates, can be used as a viscosity regulator in cement and concrete. (lu.se)
  • This is significant, as p -hydroxybenzoic acid is readily available by simple hydrolysis of several different lignins and functions as a drop-in replacement for 50% of the BPA-based material in this commercial system without significant degradation of material properties. (acs.org)
  • For example, it has the ability to degrade both very long-chain PET molecules, known as polymers, and short-chain PET molecules, known as oligomers, which means that degradation can be continuous. (canplastics.com)
  • Lignin is a heterogeneous aromatic polymer, highly recalcitrant towards degradation. (csic.es)
  • The microbial degradation of native lignin by basidiomyce- citrant and stable in the environment. (lu.se)
  • THE LIGNIN RESEARCH PROJECT involves a group of researchers developing processes for new applications of the forestry product lignin. (lu.se)
  • Lignin is a major component of wood and is one of the most abundant natural organic wood polymers which provides a multitude of functionalities. (sappi.com)
  • Wood is a natural composite of cellulose fibers and lignin, which is an organic polymer that makes wood rigid. (calforestfoundation.org)
  • The biodegradability of plastics derived from these biodegradable polymers can only be guaranteed if all additives and (organic) fillers are biodegradable, too," explains text on the poster. (biocycle.net)
  • The most abundant natural aromatic organic polymer found in all vascular plants. (bvsalud.org)
  • Examples of organic natural polymers (biopolymers) are starch, cellulose, lignin and proteins. (lu.se)
  • Microorganisms capable of catabolizing lignin-derived ar- carbohydrate and protein components of the organic matter omatics are essentially fungi and bacteria (Bugg et al. (lu.se)
  • The required methods to separate lignin from the plant cell walls and cellulose, are quite harsh and this partially changes its native conformation [ 17 ] . (encyclopedia.pub)
  • In the course of his studies, he authored peer-reviewed journal articles and holds a patent for novel solvent technology to purify and separate lignin into high-value engineering applications. (kyzen.com)
  • The implementation of a sustainable and feasible process in several electrolytes represents a key point for bridging the pulp and paper industry and the innovative lignin valorization research. (rwth-aachen.de)
  • Much effort has been invested in developing methods for producing small molecules from lignin as a way to source feedstock chemicals from renewable sources. (acs.org)
  • The use of lignin-derived small molecules in high-value systems such as epoxies may help improve the economics of biorefineries. (acs.org)
  • Although lignin depolymerisation strategies have been used to produce various aromatic platform chemicals, converting lignin into high-value molecules with specific functions, such as molecular motors, is underexplored. (chemistryworld.com)
  • It consists of lignin molecules modified with sulfonate groups and sodium ions. (lignincorp.com)
  • Polymers consist of chain-shaped molecules which are in turn composed of many smaller molecules. (lu.se)
  • 16S lignin-derived mixtures of aromatic molecules. (lu.se)
  • Lignin is the second most abundant natural polymer on earth but has been so far underutilized or burned for energy production. (htgf.de)
  • Calcium Lignosulfonate Powder Water Reducer Admixture Cement Water Reducing Agent JF CALCIUM LIGNOSULFONATE POWDER Product Introduce: Synonyms:China Calcium Lignosulfonate Lignin is the second most abundant natural polymer with aromatic structure in nature. (chinaqualitycrafts.com)
  • 2011). It is these ether linkages that are most susceptible to cleavage by technical kraft processes, which impart a large amount of phenolic hydroxyl groups within the structure of kraft lignins (Gierer 1980). (ncsu.edu)
  • The lignins of the brown midrib corn stovers tested were significantly more condensed than a typical commercial corn stover and a significant finding was that pretreatment with alkaline hydrogen peroxide increases the fraction of lignins involved in condensed linkages from 88-95% to ~99% for all the corn stovers tested, which is much more than has been reported in the literature for other pretreatments. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Some of the enzymes which generate aromatic radicals that break down most prominent bacterial strains found were isolated and tax- the complex linkages present in lignin to compounds of lower onomically identified using 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) se- molecular weight. (lu.se)
  • Moreover, with the growth of wood polymer composites (WPC), engineers and builders have made a major shift from the use of natural wood to laboratory-engineered wood. (bartleby.com)
  • Lignin reinforcement of the UcS was used to prepare composite films, aimed to reduce the starch biodegradability and slow the release of nitrogen in aerobic soil condition. (degruyter.com)
  • Starch is a semicrystalline polymer which is derived from plants. (degruyter.com)
  • These glycosidic bonds are highly susceptible to the enzymatic hydrolysis under the natural environment and makes the starch a highly biodegradable polymer (5). (degruyter.com)
  • Green natural rubber- g -modified starch (8), starch- g -acrylic acid (9), starch- g -poly (l-lactide) (10) and starch films plasticized with urea (11). (degruyter.com)
  • There were some studies reported on reducing the starch composite films biodegradability out of the context of slow release fertilizer by addition of other natural polymers. (degruyter.com)
  • 5%), PHB (and copolymers), and starch and other natural polymers - have a solid green background (proven biodegradability) in all environments. (biocycle.net)
  • Lignin is a by-product of the pulp industry and the volume arising worldwide is about 50 million tonnes per year. (redferret.net)
  • LignoPure invented a unique approach to replace plastics through utilization of wood waste and the team just closed its seed round with HTGF, IFH and Tanovis AG to scale its own technology for the transformation of lignin - a byproduct of the pulp and paper industries and biorefineries - into tailor made particles for life science applications and accelerate its market entry. (htgf.de)
  • The production of valuable aromatic compounds from lignin could potentially substitute or complement the utilization of fossil resources for compounds as vanillin, an important phenolic flavouring agent, or guaiacol, a fundamental chemical precursor in the polymer industry. (rwth-aachen.de)
  • Due to a tendency towards the use of biochemicals, the efficient utilization of lignin has gained wide attention. (encyclopedia.pub)
  • Abstract Starting from mature vegetable compost, four bac- the utilization of these bacteria as cell factories for upgrading terial strains were selected using a lignin-rich medium. (lu.se)
  • We were able to determine that the enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose to to glucose ( i.e. digestibility) of four grasses with relatively diverse lignin phenotypes could be correlated to total lignin content and the content of p -hydroxycinnamates, while S/G ratios did not appear to contribute to the enzymatic digestibility or delignification. (biomedcentral.com)
  • These synthetic polymers are the main environmental pollution concerns which have justified finding other alternate green solutions for the fertilizer industry. (degruyter.com)
  • They represent an excellent, sustainable alternative to synthetic polymers. (borregaard.com)
  • Increasing of lignin in composite films, the acid to aldehyde ratios of vanillyl and syringyl phenols of the lignin declined from 1.18 to 1.17 (~0.76%) and 1.59-1.56 (~1.78%), respectively. (degruyter.com)
  • The diffusivity of nitrogen was effectively slowed 0.66-0.94 times by the lignin in composite films and showed a "Fickian diffusion" mechanism (release exponent n =0.095-0.143). (degruyter.com)
  • Mixing lignin with natural fibres (flax, hemp or other fibre plants) and some natural additive produces a fibre composite that can be processed at raised temperatures and, just like a synthetic thermoplastic material, can be made into mouldings, plates or slabs on conventional plastics processing machines. (redferret.net)
  • I've used layers of sticky plastic fastener (Blu-Tack) as the matrix and matchsticks as the fibers, so this is (loosely speaking) a kind of polymer matrix composite. (explainthatstuff.com)
  • Wood can be called a natural composite material that has fibrous material in the form of cellulose. (bartleby.com)
  • Currently, commercial production of slow or control release fertilizer (S/CRFs) depends on non-renewable petroleum derived non-biodegradable polymers, e.g. polyolefin (Meister™ Chisso-Asahi Fertilizer Corporation, Japan), polyalkenes (Nutricote ® , Chisso-Asahi Fertilizer Corporation, Japan) and polyurethane-like resins (Haifa Chemicals Co. Ltd, Israel) (3). (degruyter.com)
  • However, the chemical nature of lignin makes this polymer an interesting source of aromatic chemicals. (csic.es)
  • Other financial contributors to the Hinton plant included $10 million from Natural Resources Canada through its Investments in Forest Industry Transformation (IFIT) Program and $3 million from the Alberta government though Alberta Innovates Bio Solutions (AI Bio) and its Advanced Materials and Chemicals Program. (processwest.ca)
  • The project involves researchers developing catalytical methods for the decomposition of lignin, analysing structures and converting lignin into other chemicals, using new microorganisms and processes. (lu.se)
  • This is a high-risk project but the researchers are convinced that its five-year perspective will allow them to identify new areas of application for our forestry industry and, hopefully, new environmentally friendly and valuable chemicals derived from the raw material lignin. (lu.se)
  • There are many other potential future applications for lignin - both in direct polymer form - or in converted form - such as liquid aeroplane fuel, bioplastics, or refined chemicals for drug production. (lu.se)
  • Sweden has all the right ingredients, both technically as well as in the form of available natural resources, to create a competitive bioeconomy with complex biorefineries and production of green chemicals. (lu.se)
  • Increasing the value of lignin as a source of bio- based chemicals would enable new opportunities (Beckham et al. (lu.se)
  • Penn Engineers' 'metallic wood' gets its useful properties and name from a key structural feature of its natural counterpart: porosity. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Lignin and PET have many structural similarities, so the PET-degrading enzymes found in nature may be important for composting wood in forest soils, for example. (canplastics.com)
  • Lignin is a structural polymer in plants that blocks 80 to 95 percent of light from passing through. (manufacturing.net)
  • Revolution Fibres' electro-spinning technology creates nanofibre out of a range of materials including high melt temperature polymers such as PES and PAI, as well as polymers derived from natural sources such as lignin. (innovationintextiles.com)
  • The advantage of renewable resources over fossil fuels is that renewable resources can be replaced over time by natural processes. (intechopen.com)
  • Among others, hydrothermal and catalytic processes have been widely explored with the aim of generating high value products from lignin. (rwth-aachen.de)
  • In this thesis, electrochemical processes are applied to valorize lignin, with a particular focus on the role of the electrolyte. (rwth-aachen.de)
  • Lignin is a complex material based on a number of familiar chemical building blocks which combine in partly random processes to form a large polymer. (lu.se)
  • There are therefore potentially major assets and opportunities to use lignin as a renewable raw material in various processes. (lu.se)
  • Lignin is a component of agricultural residues derived primarily from the processing of paper and biofuels . (unive.it)
  • Therefore, the key motives of exploring biodegradable polymers from renewable resources have been envisaged for effective urea encapsulation and to prolong the supply of nitrogen to plants through delaying its fast release in soil (4). (degruyter.com)
  • The Nova Institute, along with several partners and sponsors - Kunststoff Technik Stuttgart, OWS, Inc, Marine Sciences, and TÜV Rheinland and TÜV Austria - created a poster, Biodegradable Polymers in Various Environments , which shows their fate in environments such as soil, composting and landfill. (biocycle.net)
  • The influence of aqueous and non aqueous electrolytes on the depolymerization of lignin and the products´ yield has been thoroughly investigated. (rwth-aachen.de)
  • After centrifuging and drying the product, the researchers recovered stable particles 30 to 50 nm in diameter, which included a 3- to 4-nm-thick lignin-based shell. (acs.org)
  • It consists of refining (extracting) the lignin fractions with a priori-defined and -reproducible characteristics (i.e. similar molecular weight range and chemical-physical characteristics) from the residues of any origin, using 'green' and recyclable solvents. (unive.it)
  • The lignin and hemicelluloses forms a cross-linked matrix which covers the cellulose fibers and thereby forms a tight and, compact structure [ 4 ] . (encyclopedia.pub)
  • Sappi Valida nanocellulose responds to a critical need to replace undesirable products, used to impart performance characteristics such as reinforcement and stabilisation, with sustainable natural ingredients. (sappi.com)
  • Significant progress is being made, and methods for deconstructing lignin are producing good yields of small, mononuclear aromatic products-sufficient amounts to enable studies of the potential use of these compounds as replacements for compounds currently produced from petroleum. (acs.org)
  • To investigate the use of lignin products in epoxies, we begin with aromatic acids that can be produced from lignin, treat them with epichlorohydrin to make glycidyl ethers, and investigate the thermal and mechanical properties of cured mixtures of these compounds with a commercial epoxy resin (EPON 826) and an anhydride curing agent (NMA). (acs.org)
  • Mix Lignin with other compounds such as resins and flax, and you can make things like speakers, musical instruments and simple household products, as well as car interior bits. (redferret.net)
  • Our products are based on lignin, the natural binding agent in trees. (borregaard.com)
  • LignoPure is positioning as game changer in the way that lignin is applied into products, offering tailor-made powders according to the intended application and bringing the properties that lignin has in nature to the end products that will be offered to consumers. (htgf.de)
  • LignoPure works beyond the supply of lignin powders but aims to assist their customers in launching their own innovative, sustainable, and lignin-based products by offering tailored solutions and development services for Life Sciences as well as new materials. (htgf.de)
  • This first financing round will be a cornerstone for achieving our next milestones, it will help us accelerate market entry and position ourselves as pioneers in the use of lignin in human consumption products. (htgf.de)
  • Therefore, it is gratifying to see that there are companies like LignoPure with their innovative, multifunctional and cost-efficient lignin products, that are helping other companies to become more sustainable. (htgf.de)
  • The use of biotechnology will permit to develop new routes for cellulose and lignin-based added value products, including speciality paper products and surfactants. (csic.es)
  • WPC is primarily made of used wood products such as sawdust, wood left-outs after processing and mixed with many binding materials and polymers to develop an eco-friendly building material. (bartleby.com)
  • Once extracted, it works as a natural adhesive with many potential industrial uses - not least of which is within the wood products industry itself. (processwest.ca)
  • Albers says, so far, use and testing of the lignin- based adhesives in its panelboard products have met or exceeded West Fraser's performance standards. (processwest.ca)
  • Written by: Christin Zimmer - Product and Service Manager at Lignopure Why is lignin not yet used in many products when there is a large amount available and it has a diverse variety of functionalities? (lignopure.com)
  • New, green lignin products will be able to replace petrochemical polymers. (european-coatings.com)
  • By using natural, sustainable raw materials, Borregaard produces advanced and environmentally friendly biochemicals and biomaterials that can replace oil-based products. (european-coatings.com)
  • Borregaard has 1080 employees in 16 countries and is a global leader in lignin-based products. (european-coatings.com)
  • The aim of the project is to create a platform for research and use of the forestry raw material of lignin in order to extract more valuable products from forestry in the future, which would allow us to increase the value of forested land", says research leader Marie Gorwa-Grauslund. (lu.se)
  • Around 15 to 30 per cent of waste products from agriculture and forestry consist of lignin - in particular, coniferous trees contain a high proportion of lignin. (lu.se)
  • It could see an immediate application in-house to test lignin- based resins as an adhesive at its three plywood plants and LVL production facility. (processwest.ca)
  • It was found that grass cell wall polysaccharide hydrolysis by cellulolytic enzymes for grasses exhibiting a diversity of lignin structures and compositions could be linked to quantifiable changes in the composition of the cell wall and properties of the lignin including apparent content of the p -hydroxycinnamates while the limitations of S/G estimation in grasses is highlighted. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) showed that the bio-carriers were composed of lignin moieties and polysaccharide units. (ncsu.edu)
  • Lignins are a class of highly phenolic polymers that help give plants their physical structure. (acs.org)
  • Hardwood lignins, however, are composed of a mixture of predominantly G and S units with a small amount of H units (Fengel and Wegener 1984). (ncsu.edu)
  • For the first time, scientists have made a molecular motor from lignin-containing hardwood. (chemistryworld.com)
  • Especially in our times, the search for more sustainable materials is very relevant, therefore trying to make biobased amphiphilic polymers sounded like a good idea. (raffalab.com)
  • In his thesis about amphiphilic polymers, he strongly wanted to go in the direction of sustainable materials, possibly with applications in the biomedical field, so it seemed to both of us a good idea trying to start a collaboration with Peter, and use 'his' lignin as starting material for our amphiphilic polymers. (raffalab.com)
  • However, lignin can now be used industrially, to produce innovative materials in a circular economy, thanks to a novel refining method patented at Ca' Foscari . (unive.it)
  • Even though lignin accounts for 30% of lignocellulosic materials - it is a residue from biofuel production (half a kilogram of lignin for every liter of biofuel! (unive.it)
  • The research group at Ca' Foscari, led by Claudia Crestini , has discovered and patented a method that transforms lignin into a commodity based on high value-added materials. (unive.it)
  • This potential augments the immediate applications of lignin described here and more in depth in PPM's research materials. (unive.it)
  • Plant polymers are the main source of renewable materials in Earth. (csic.es)
  • Therefore, they have the highest potential for modification of lignocellulosic materials and isolated lignins. (csic.es)
  • The accumulated data is aimed at providing the foundations for a rational design of single component, lignin-based thermoplastic materials with reproducible polymeric properties when thermally processed in a number of manufacturing cycles. (ncsu.edu)
  • Beside the non aqueous electrolytes, water based hydrotropic solution and standard alkaline electrolyte were used to depolymerize lignin by means of the Fenton reaction and of an electrochemical swiss-roll reactor. (rwth-aachen.de)
  • Cellulose polymers with multidentate chelating functionalities that have high efficiency for toxic metal ions present in water were designed, synthesized, and analyzed. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The adsorption efficiency of the three polymers toward Pb(II) and various toxic metal ions present in sewage was evaluated as a function of adsorbent dose, time, temperature, pH value, and initial ion concentration to determine optimum adsorption conditions. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Biologically synthesized plastics (also called bioplastics or biobased plastics) are plastics produced from natural origins, such as plants, animals, or micro-organisms. (wikipedia.org)
  • Being in the lignin business for more than 15 years, Tanovis sees LignoPure as a perfect match and a great opportunity to reach our combined target markets faster. (htgf.de)
  • The team of Tanovis is excited to work with the LignoPure team to create novel and sustainable solutions based on lignin in a fast-growing market. (htgf.de)
  • The use of cheap and renewable bioresources, like lignin, has been attractive since the increasing depletion of fossil fuel resources is concerning level [ 10 ] . (encyclopedia.pub)
  • During the past year, interest in this natural polymer has grown exponentially abroad because of its great potential and thanks to the development of new fractionation and refining techniques which hitherto were available only on a laboratory scale. (unive.it)
  • One of the ideas I had, when I started my position as assistant professor, was to find ways to make more sustainable amphiphilic polymers. (raffalab.com)
  • I have been working on amphiphilic polymers for a while, and I knew that more sustainable ones can be made, for example, from polysaccharides. (raffalab.com)
  • This kind of polymers (you can also call them polymeric surfactants ) can find application in many important fields, such as medicine, agriculture, electronics, and oil industry . (raffalab.com)
  • and iii) production of lignin-based surfactants (as dispersants and nano-emulsifiers) and adhesives. (csic.es)
  • While it is not the only solution being investigated, use of lignin in the development of a new, benign family of panelboard adhesives is seen potentially as a huge win for the industry, especially with the solution coming from the wood industry itself and, as an added bonus, the production of a new value-added product specifically from the pulp sector. (processwest.ca)
  • It has already supported considerable research and testing of formulations and performance of lignin-based panelboard adhesives within organizations such as FPInnovations. (processwest.ca)
  • This could then allow to prepare lignin-based amphiphilic polymers, also with better defined structures, especially when the use of this starting material can be coupled with controlled polymerization methods, which I use extensively in my research. (raffalab.com)
  • This degrades the natural polymer lignin in plant cell walls by breaking down lignin polymers to release sugars from woody plant parts. (canplastics.com)
  • Yucca fiber is a natural cellulose fiber that can be extracted from the Yucca plant leaves by retting. (researchgate.net)
  • As a natural and renewable biopolymer, lignin is next only to cellulose in natural abundance, since it is an integral part of the plant cell wall. (ncsu.edu)
  • Lignin is a natural polymer and a key component of plant cell walls. (chemistryworld.com)
  • Once commissioned, the one-of-a-kind facility in Hinton will ramp up lignin production 1,000 fold, using Canadian-developed, breakthrough lignin recovery technology first demonstrated at a pilot-scale plant in Thunder Bay, Ont. (processwest.ca)
  • Albers says its work with FPInnovations in investigating the commercial potential of lignin is why West Fraser agreed to pay $9 million as part of the overall $22-million project cost for the Hinton lignin recovery plant. (processwest.ca)
  • Lignin is composed of coniferyl, p-coumaryl, and sinapyl alcohols in varying ratios in different plant species. (bvsalud.org)
  • However, the natural enzymes are far to optimally operate under industrial conditions. (csic.es)
  • Now, Barta has teamed up with Ben Feringa at the University of Groningen to prepare a light-driven unidirectional molecular motor (see interactive structure below) in six environmentally benign steps from lignin-derived dihydrosynapyl alcohol. (chemistryworld.com)
  • Researchers at Lund University want to increase the value of our forests by finding new, more valuable areas of application for the substance of lignin. (lu.se)