Research Catalog

Title

Materials, chemicals, and energy from forest biomass / Dimitris S. Argyropoulos, editor.

Publication

Washington, DC : American Chemical Society : Distributed by Oxford University Press, [2007], ©2007.

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Additional Authors

Argyropoulos, Dimitris S., 1956-

Description

xiii, 591 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

ACS symposium series ; 954

Uniform Title

ACS symposium series ; 954.

Subjects

• Biomass energy
• Forest biomass

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

1. Chemicals, materials, and energy from biomass : a review / Lucian A. Lucia, Dimitris S. Argyropoulos, Lambrini Adamopoulos and Armindo R. Gaspar -- 2. Lignocellulosic biorefineries : reality, hype, or something in between? / Stephen S. Kelley -- 3. Recent contributions to the realm of polymers from renewable resources / Alessandro Gandini and Mohamed Naceur Belgacem -- 4. Transforming academic curricula : from pulp and paper to biobased products / Shri Ramaswamy, Ulrike Tschirner and Yi-ru Chen -- 5. Composite materials from forest biomass : a review of current practices, science, and technology / Roger M. Rowell -- 6. Surface and in-depth modification of cellulose fibers / Alessandro Gandini and Mohamed Naceur Belgacem -- 7. Opportunities for hardwood hemicellulose in biodegradable polymer blends / Arthur J. Stipanovic, Jennifer S. Haghpanah, Thomas E. Amidon, Gary M. Scott, Vincent Barber and Kunal Mishra -- 8. Cellulose-silica hybrid materials obtained by heteropolyacid catalyzed sol-gel synthesis / S. Sequeira, D. V. Evtuguin and I. Portugal -- 9. Oxygen barrier films based on xylans isolated from biomass / Maria Grondahl and Paul Gatenholm -- 10. Hydrogels from polysaccharides for biomedical applications / Margaretha Soderqvist Lindblad, John Sjoberg, Ann-Christine Albertsson and Jonas Hartman -- 11. Room temperature ionic liquids as lubricants for wood-polyethylene composites / Kaichang Li and Katie Zhou -- 12. Lignins as emulsion stabilizers / Orlando J. Rojas, Johnny Bullon, Fredy Ysambertt, Ana Forgiarini, Jean-L. Salager and Dimitris S. Argyropoulos -- 13. Modifying the functionality of starch films with natural polymers / Lucian A. Lucia, Dimitris S. Argyropoulos, Weiping Ban and Jianguo Song -- 14. Modeling water transport in saturated wood / Aaron J. Jacobson and Sujit Banerjee -- 15. A brief history of lignin-containing polymeric materials culminating in x-ray powder diffraction analyses of kraft lignin-based thermoplastic polymer blends / Yi-ru Chen and Simo Sarkanen -- 16. Functional polyester and copolymers by a one-pot acetylation-oxidation of cellulose / Mo Hunsen -- 17. Production of chemicals from cellulose and biomass-derived compounds : advances in the oxidative functionalization of levulinic acid / R. Saladino, T. Pagliaccia, Dimitris S. Argyropoulos and C. Crestini -- 18. Furan chemistry at the service of functional macromolecular materials : the reversible Diels-Alder reaction / Alessandro Gandini and Mohamed Naceur Belgacem -- 19. Catalysis of the electrooxidation of biomass-derived alcohol fuels / Corey R. Anthony, Daniel Serra and Lisa McElwee-White -- 20. Oxidative chemistry of lignin in supercritical carbon dioxide and expanded liquids / Dimitris S. Argyropoulos, Carl D. Saquing, Armindo R. Gaspar, Nestor U. Soriano, Lucian A. Lucia and Orlando J. Rojas -- 21. New stereoselective functionalization of cellulose-derived pyrolysis derivatives : levoglucosenone and its dimer / Zbigniew J. Witczak -- 22. Knots in trees : a rich source of bioactive polyphenols / Bjarne Holmbom, Stefan Willfoer, Jarl Hemming, Suvi Pietarinen, Linda Nisula, Patrik Eklund and Rainer Sjoeholm -- 23. Pyrolysis mechanism of woody biomass relating to product selectivity / Haruo Kawamoto and Shiro Saka -- 24. Antifungal compounds isolated from tropical and temperate woods / Irawan W. Kusuma and Sanro Tachibana -- 25. Pretreatments for converting wood into paper and chemicals / William R. Kenealy, Carl J. Houtman, Jose Laplaza, Thomas W. Jeffries and Eric G. Horn -- 26. Lignin biodegradation by selective white rot fungus and its potential use in wood biomass conversion / T. Watanabe, Y. Ohashi, T. Tanabe, Y. Honda and K. Messner -- 27. Bioethanol production from lignocellulosics using supercritical water / Shiro Saka and Hisashi Miyafuji -- 28. Integrating black liquor gasification and pulping : a review of current technology / Mathias Lindstrom, Hasan Jameel, Ved Naithani, Adrianna Kirkman and Jean Renard -- 29. Production of activated carbon from biochar using chemical and physical activation : mechanism and modeling / Ajay K. Dalai and Ramin Azargohar -- 30. Measurement of cellulase activity with piezoelectric resonators / Orlando J. Rojas, Changwoo Jeong, Xavier Turon and Dimitris S. Argyropoulos -- 31. High-throughput material characterization techniques : near infrared and laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy / Nicole Labbe, Timothy G. Rials, Stephen S. Kelley and Madhavi Z. Martin -- 32. Carbonyl and carboxyl profiles as two novel parameters in advanced cellulose analytics / Antje Potthast, Thomas Rosenau and Paul Kosma -- 33. Chemiluminometry of cellulosic materials / Matija Strlic, Drago Kocar and Jana Kolar.

ISBN

• 0841239819 (alk. paper)
• 9780841239814 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2006043053

OCLC

• OCM71006803
• 71006803
• SCSB-5335956

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