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Cellulose Nanostructures Extracted from Pineapple Fibres
The fibres from pineapple plant leaves and pineapple crown leaves are unprocessed wastes with high cellulose content (74–83 wt%) that are...
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Molecular control of cellulosic fin morphogenesis in ascidians
BackgroundThe tunicates form a group of filter-feeding marine animals closely related to vertebrates. They share with them a number of features such...
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Microbial Conversion of Biomass
Microbial conversion of biomass is a natural process of transformation of biological resources into energy and bioproducts. Lignocellulosic and...
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Reconditioning acidic and artificially aged cellulose with alkaline nanoparticles: an NMR diffusometry study
The prominent degradation mechanism of cellulose is the acid-catalyzed hydrolysis of glycosidic bonds, which results in the decrease of the degree of...
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Biodegradation of Biopolymers: Reflections Towards Possible Biomagnification
Biodegradable biopolymers have gained much attention over synthetic nonbiodegradable petroleum-based polymers. Petroleum-based nonbiodegradable...
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Study on Mechanical and Thermal Properties of Amazon Fibers on the Polymeric Biocomposites: Malva and Tucum
Amazon region found abundant vegetal fibers with diversified properties to the application. Tucum and malva fibers regularly obtained in this region...
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Biodegradation of Biopolymers: Reflections Towards Possible Biomagnification
Biodegradable biopolymers have gained much attention over synthetic nonbiodegradable petroleum-based polymers. Petroleum-based nonbiodegradable...
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Antineoplastic activity of products derived from cellulose-containing materials: levoglucosenone and structurally-related derivatives as new alternatives for breast cancer treatment
Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among women worldwide. For this reason, the development of new therapies is still essential. In...
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Lignocellulosic residues as catalysts for CO2 fixation: complementary experimental and computational approaches
AbstractLignocellulosic wastes obtained from vegetal residues in combination with nucleophiles were used as catalysts for carbon dioxide fixation in...
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Lignocellulosic Biomass
Lignocellulose (LC) stands as Earth’s most abundant biomass and can be derived from various living organisms, with its primary source being the plant...
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Lignocellulosic Biomass
Lignocellulose (LC) stands as Earth’s most abundant biomass and can be derived from various living organisms, with its primary source being the plant...
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Is the co-application of self-produced compost and natural zeolite interesting to reduce environmental and toxicological availability in metal-contaminated kitchen garden soils?
Composting can turn organic waste into a valuable soil amendment that can improve physical, chemical, and biological soil quality. Compost amendments...
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Automatic pseudo-coloring approaches to improve visual perception and contrast in polarimetric images of biological tissues
Imaging polarimetry methods have proved their suitability to enhance the image contrast between tissues and structures in organic samples, or even to...
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SacEXP32 sugarcane expansin gene expression increases cell size and improves biomass digestibility
Cellulose is the major renewable feedstock used in a variety of industrial processes. However, its native state, organizing itself in microfibrils...
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From the Understanding of Fluorination Process to Hydrophobic Natural Fibers
Composites are constantly studied with the aim of making these materials more efficient and more environmental friendly. With this second aim,...
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Extraction of Lignin and Modifications
Lignin is considered the second most abundant renewable material after cellulose. It is a natural amorphous macromolecule that confers rigidity,...
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Obtaining cellulose nanocrystals from pineapple crown fibers by free-chlorite hydrolysis with sulfuric acid: physical, chemical and structural characterization
Brazil is the second-largest world producer of pineapple and generates almost 45% of its initial mass in wastes after industrialization, mainly due...
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Minimum Lignin and Xylan Removal to Improve Cellulose Accessibility
The lignocellulosic biomass, such as provided by the sugarcane, is an abundant source of raw materials for energy production. Milling and...
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Characterization of raw and alkali-treated novel fibers from stem of Hibiscus canescens
This work focuses on characterizing Hibiscus canescens stem fibers (HCSFs), which were manually retrieved from the plant stem. After treating the...
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Chronic diseases are first associated with the degradation and artificialization of food matrices rather than with food composition: calorie quality matters more than calorie quantity
PurposeFor decades, it has been customary to relate human health to the nutritional composition of foods, and from there was born food composition...
