Xiaowu Gong

TL;DR: Fermentation experiments demonstrated that glucose in the Chlorella biomass hydrolysates was converted into ethanol by Saccharomyces cerevisiae with a yield of 0.47 g g(-1), which is 91% of the theoretical yield, thus a novel route for the hydrolysis of biomass to generate fermentable sugars.

TL;DR: An ionic liquids-based chemical hydrolysis strategy was developed to obtain high-yielding soluble sugars from Chlorella biomass and showed the great potential to produce fermentable sugars from algal biomass.

TL;DR: Evaluation of monolignins content (H, G, S) in different CS samples suggested that substrates rich in guaiacyl and syringyl would generate a higher efficiency of enzymatic saccharification, which might be a potential way to enhance biomass degradation and transformation.

TL;DR: In this study, cross-linked cellulase aggregates were synthesized by precipitation of cellulase with ammonium sulfate and then cross-linking with glutaraldehyde and the results revealed that the optimal pH of C-CLEAs shifted toward a more acidic environment by 2.0 pH units, and the optimal temperature shifted toward higher temperature by 20 °C after immobilization.

TL;DR: In this paper , the effect of chemical composition and monolignin in corncob material on biomass digestion was investigated, and a negative correlation was found between lignin, hemicellulose and sugar release upon alkali and acid pretreatment.