Special Issue "Biofuels R&D: Securing the Planet's Future Energy Needs"
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Green Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2008) | Viewed by 272702
Special Issue Editor

Interests: bioenergy; microbial conversion of biomass; biofuels feedstock development; molecular microbiology; microbial genomics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The value of biomass as a sustainable source of energy and carbon has been heralded for years. Despite the information available on enzyme systems and plant cell walls structure, application of this knowledge to biomass conversion into biofuels and useful chemicals has met with limited success. The goal of this special issue is to examine the stand of the latest available technologies to ensure a sustainable commercial use of biomass wastes.
Papers can also be submitted to a new MDPI journal: Energies.
Clifford Louime, Ph.D.
Guest Editor
Keywords
- Biomass Characterization & Analysis
- Characterization of biomass feedstock and products
- Process design
- Development of new methods and tools
- Biochemical Conversion Technologies
- Development of pretreatment technologies
- Cellulase Enzyme Development: e.g. basic science underlying enzymatic hydrolysis
- Strain Development: metabolic engineering techniques
- Thermochemical Conversion Technologies
- Gasification R&D
- Pyrolysis processes
- Biobased Product & Development
- Discovery, improvement, and development of conversion technologies
- Novel separation technologies
- Quantifying the quality and performance of biobased products