Topochemical Engineering & Bioinspired Fabrication

Lignin-based materials for emerging advanced applications

Lignin abundance worldwide is well-known, and the effort of academic research groups and industries to increase the use of this biopolymer in a wide variety of fields has not gone unnoticed. While lignin has...

Advanced Fractionation of Kraft Lignin by Aqueous Hydrotropic Solutions

Lignin is an underutilized high-potential biopolymer that has been extensively studied over the past few decades. However, lignin still has drawbacks when compared with well-known petroleum-based equivalents, and the production of tailored...

Valorization of Aloe barbadensis Miller. (Aloe vera) Processing Waste

Aloe vera plant is known worldwide for its medicinal properties and application in gel-based products such as shampoo, soap, and sunscreen. However, the demand for these gel-based products has led to a surplus...

Antimicrobial hybrid cellulose-lignin beads

In the present study, cellulose-lignin beads were prepared using pretreated dissolving grade-pulp and extracted from birch wood hydrotropic lignin as starting materials. The preparation involved dissolution of both polymers in environmentally friendly...

Topochemical fractionation of lignin and polysaccharides

Sugarcane bagasse is abundant agro-industrial waste that can be potentially utilized as a source of valuable compounds and biopolymers. In the present study, sugarcane bagasse from Brazil was fractionated employing an environmentally...

Hydrotropic extraction of birch lignin

In this work an environmentally friendly hydrotropic process was used to extract lignin from industrial birch wood chips. Two hydrotropic treatments were performed, a conventional and a modified process. The lignins were...

Enhanced enzymatic saccharification of corn stover via topochemical treatment

Hydrotropic pretreatment using sodium xylene sulfonate (SXS) could remove lignin and xylan from corn stover to enhance enzymatic saccharification. Peracetic acid (PAA) treatment prior to the hydrotropic process [so-called modified hydrotropic pretreatment...