Advances in Biomass Research and Applications

Dear Colleagues, 

Lignocellulosic biomass is a renewable bioresource that could replace fossil resources. Cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin are potential substances for the production of fermentable sugars, cellulosic materials, aromatic monomers, and so on. Although biomass as a green material harbors potential utilizations, we have focused on producing fermentable sugars for biofuels and biorefinery products as renewable sources over the last decades. However, hemicellulose or lignin could also be attractive substances as value-added chemicals and materials. In the field of development of technologies for biomass utilization, we must still determine how whole biomass and its byproducts can be converted into final products effectively while reducing the production cost in the process and recycling the renewable resources without any wastes for zero-emission technologies.

We are organizing a Special Issue entitled “Advances in Biomass Research and Applications” in Applied Sciences. With your distinguished expertise in this area, we would like to invite you to submit a paper to this Special Issue. The Special Issue focuses on innovative techniques for biomass-based products to reduce byproducts and energy consumption in the overall processes, and their possible application in biomass-based industries. This Special Issue will publish multidisciplinary approaches of theoretical and experimental designs for sustainable development for our world using green bioresources.

Dr. Seonghun Kim
Guest Editor

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