Allan Haiming Gao

TL;DR: The structure of lignin obtained from the ozone and soaking aqueous ammonia pretreatment of wheat straw has been characterized utilizing chemical analytical methods to reveal its antioxidant characteristics; the factors led to the extracted lign in having a comparable antioxidant activity to that of currently used commercial antioxidants.

TL;DR: In this paper , a carbon-negative fermentation route was proposed to produce the industrially important chemicals acetone and isopropanol from abundant, low-cost waste gas feedstocks, such as industrial emissions and syngas.

TL;DR: Investigation into pretreatment of wheat straw using ozonolysisis is reported, with special emphasis on selective modification/degradation of lignin subunits, leading to higher sugar recovery and new information in overcoming lign in barrier for lignocellulose utilization.

TL;DR: The SAA treatment was shown to remove significant amounts of lignin without strongly affecting lign in functional groups or structure and activation energy of control and pretreated wheat straw was found to be decreased.

TL;DR: Parameters derived from the cuticle-based model provided a better fit to experimental results compared to a model without a cuticle layer and the kinetic parameters of two mathematical models for predicting the soluble and insoluble lignin at different pretreatment time were determined.