Biomass conversion: The UiO-66 metal organic framework has been demonstrated as a versatile solid-acid catalyst through decoration of its with numerous functional groups. These catalysts exhibit green, cheap, and scalable alternatives for biomass conversion.

Photocatalysis has been widely known as a simple green technology to be applied in the synthesis and degradation process of organic molecules. An application photocatalysis biomass pretreatment for 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (5-HMF) production was investigated this study. The results have revealed that photocatalysis, during pretreatment, facilitates breakdown cellulose. presence oxidizing agent (...

Abstract When glucose and Amadori products are auto-oxidized, glycation occurs, resulting in the formation of early (Amadori) late advanced end (AGEs), as well free radicals. Glycation an increase radical activity induce diabetic complications. Antioxidant antiglycation compounds may aid prevention oxidation glycation. The goal this study was to assess antioxidant capacity C-phycocyanin (C-PC) ...

Furfural is an inhibitory side product formed during the depolymerization of hemicellulose with mineral acids. In Escherichia coli, furfural tolerance can be increased by expressing the native fucO gene (encoding lactaldehyde oxidoreductase). This enzyme also catalyzes the NADH-dependent reduction of furfural to the less toxic alcohol. Saturation mutagenesis was combined with growth-based selec...

Herbs and their combinations due to the wide range of biologically active substances can influence on various links pathogenetic mechanism development diabetes mellitus its complications. One such is an antidiabetic herbal mixture with established hypoglycemic, hypolipidemic, antioxidant, hepatoprotective, pancreatoprotective activity in previous pharmacological study vivo that including inulin...

The optimization of an alkaline pretreatment process for the delignification of sugarcane bagasse (SCB) to enhance the subsequent enzymatic hydrolysis was performed according to the Doehlert uniform shell design. In this experimental design, the effect of two factors—potassium hydroxide (KOH) concentration and autoclaving time at 121 C (1 atm)—on cellulose, hemicellulose, or the total polysacch...

Ethanol production by recombinant Escherichia coli strain FBR5 from dilute acid pretreated wheat straw (WS) by separate hydrolysis and fermentation (SHF) and simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (SSF) was studied. The yield of total sugars from dilute acid (0.5% H2SO4) pretreated (160 °C, 10 min) and enzymatically saccharified (pH 5.0, 45 °C, 72 h) WS (86 g/l) was 50.0± 1.4 g/l. The h...

BACKGROUND Chemical and physical pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass improves substrate reactivity for increased microbial biofuel production, but also restricts growth via the release of furan aldehydes, such as furfural and 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (5-HMF). The physiological effects of these inhibitors on thermophilic, fermentative bacteria are important to understand; especially as cellul...