A research team led by Professor Jaehoon Kim at Sungkyunkwan University and Dr. Dong Ki Lee at the Korea Institute of Science ...

UW–Madison biochemistry professor John Ralph has been awarded the forestry industry's top prize, alongside collaborator Wout Boerjan, a professor at Ghent University in Belgium, for their ...

What if the toughest part of wood could be turned into highly useful chemicals ...

A palladium-on-carbon catalyst electrochemically breaks lignin ether bonds and upgrades the fragments into cyclic chemicals ...

理化学研究所(理研)とカネカは3月29日、植物の中でも樹木の細胞壁に多く含まれる高分子量の芳香族化合物「リグニン」の分解物を微生物に与えることで、バイオプラスチックの1種で、多くの微生物がエネルギー貯蔵物質として体内に蓄えるポリエステルで ...

Scientists have discovered that a protein responsible for the synthesis of a key plant material evolved much earlier than suspected. This new research explored the origin and evolution of the ...

A new zeolite material has shattered yield records for converting industrial lignin waste into aromatic fuel precursors by targeting the carbon-carbon bonds that have long resisted chemical breakdown.