Materials, Chemicals and Energy from Forest Biomass

This ACS volume will provide a resource for new ideas, guidance, and a good embarkation point for any future endeavors in materials, chemicals, and energy from forest biomass... If you want to understand likely and promising future endeavors in materials, chemicals, and energy from forest biomass and what it implies for the coming years, this book is an unparalleled introduction and resource and it is therefore an important part of the armamentarium of every oneinvolved in biomass and all it implies for the future

• SECTION 1 ; 1. CHEMICALS, MATERIALS & ENERGY FROM BIOMASS: A REVIEW ; 2. LIGNOCELLULOSIC BIOREFINERIES: REALITY, HYPE OR SOMETHING IN BETWEEN? ; 3. RECENT CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE REALM OF POLYMERS FROM RENEWABLE RESOURCES ; 4. TRANSFORMING ACADEMIC CURRICULA: FROM PULP & PAPER TO BIO BASED PRODUCTS ; SECTION 2: MATERIALS FROM FOREST BIOMASS ; 5. COMPOSITE MATERIALS FROM FOREST BIOMASS: A REVIEW OF CURRENT PRACTICES, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ; 6. SURFACE AND IN-DEPTH MODIFICATION OF CELLULOSE FIBERS ; 7. OPPORTUNITIES FOR HARDWOOD HEMICELLULOSE IN BIODEGRADABLE POLYMER BLENDS ; 8. CELLULOSE-SILICA HYBRID MATERIALS OBTAINED BY HETEROPOLYACID CATALYZED SOL-GEL SYNTHESIS ; 9. OXYGEN BARRIER FILMS BASED ON XYLANS ISOLATED FROM BIOMASS ; 10. HYDROGELS FROM POLYSACCHARIDES FOR BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS ; 12. LIGNINS AS EMULSION STABILIZERSRojas ; 13. MODIFYING THE FUNCTIONALITY OF STARCH FILMS WITH NATURAL POLYMERSLucia ; 14. MODELING WATER TRANSPORT IN SATURATED WOODJacobson ; 16. FUNCTIONAL POLYESTER AND COPOLYMERS BY A ONE-POT ACETYLATION/OXIDATION OF CELLULOSE ; SECTION 3 CHEMICALS FROM FOREST BIOMASS. ; 17. PRODUCTION OF CHEMICALS FROM CELLULOSE AND BIOMASS-DERIVED COMPOUNDS ; 18. FURAN CHEMISTRY AT THE SERVICE OF FUNCTIONAL MACROMOLECULAR MATERIALS; THE REVERSIBLE DIELS-ALDER REACTION ; 19. CATALYSIS OF THE ELECTROOXIDATION OF BIOMASS-DERIVED ALCOHOL FUELS ; 20. OXIDATIVE CHEMISTRY OF LIGNIN IN SUPERCRITICAL CARBON DIOXIDE AND EXPANDED LIQUIDS ; 21. NEW STEREOSELECTIVE FUNCTIONALIZATION OF CELLULOSE-DERIVED PYROLYSIS DERIVATIVES: LEVOGLUCOSENONE AND ITS DIMER ; 22. KNOTS IN TREES-A RICH SOURCE OF BIOACTIVE POLYPHENOLS ; 23. PYROLYSIS MECHANISM OF WOODY BIOMASS RELATING TO PRODUCT SELECTIVITY ; 24. ANTIFUNGAL COMPOUNDS ISOLATED FROM TROPICAL AND TEMPERATE WOODS ; SECTION 4 ENERGY FROM FOREST BIOMASS ; 25. PRETREATMENTS FOR CONVERTING WOOD INTO PAPER AND CHEMICALS ; 26. LIGNIN BIODEGRADATION BY SELECTIVE WHITE ROT FUNGUS AND ITS POTENTIAL USE IN WOOD BIOMASS CONVERSION ; 27. BIOETHANOL PRODUCTION FROM LIGNOCELLULOSICS USING SUPERCRITICAL WATER ; 28. INTEGRATING BLACK LIQUOR GASIFICATION AND PULPING; A REVIEW OF CURRENT TECHNOLOGY ; 29. PRODUCTION OF ACTIVATED CARBON FROM BIOCHAR USING CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL ACTIVATION: MECHANISM AND MODELING ; SECTION 5 NOVEL ANALYTICAL METHODS FOR STRUCTURAL ELUCIDATION OF FOREST BIOMASS ; 30. MEASUREMENT OF CELLULASE ACTIVITY WITH PIEZOELECTRIC RESONATORS ; 31. HIGH THROUGHPUT MATERIAL CHARACTERIZATION TECHNIQUESLabbe ; 32. CARBONYL AND CARBOXYL PROFILES AS TWO NOVEL PARAMETERS IN ADVANCED CELLULOSE ANALYTICS ; 33. CHEMILUMINOMETRY OF CELLULOSIC MATERIALS