Ionic liquids (ILs) have been widely used for lignocellulose fractionation and lignin isolation. However, the effect of IL treatment on structure has less explored. This study aimed to explore chemical isolated by imidazolium based ILs compare it with well-known milled wood (MWL). Four types were used, effects conditions (ILL) characteristics evaluated. As temperature was increased from 60 140 ...

Longitudinal compression can help wood form some folds on the wood cell walls after a suitable softening procedure. These folds can enhance the oneand multi-dimensional bending performances of wood. The longitudinal compression properties of alkali-treated juvenile and mature northeast Chinese ash (Fraxinus mandshurica Rupr.) were analyzed. Elastic and elastic-plastic stages were inferred from ...

Decomposition of wood is an important part of the carbon cycle of nature. Decomposition is caused by fungi, insects, and marine borers that use the wood as food or shelter, or both. Lignin in wood provides a physical barrier to enzymatic decomposition of cellulose and hemicelluloses. This barrier is breached mechanically by insects and marine borers, biochemically by whiteand soft-rot fungi, an...

A number of important anatomical features and chemical composition in opposite, normal, and compression wood of Norway spruce (Picea abies) were evaluated to optimally utilize spruce logs containing compression wood. A comparison of axial tracheid and ray cell features in the opposite, normal, and compression wood was provided. Lignin, cellulose, acetone-soluble, and water-soluble extractive co...

This work presents the investigation of various capillary electrophoretic techniques for the Separation of low-molecular-weight phenolic and neutral lignin degradation products. A successful CE mode was micellar electrlokinetic chromatography (MEKC) with carrier electrolytes containing micelleformi:ng reagents, such as sodium dodecylsulfate. Important phenolic and neutr;al lignin degradation co...

Wood is a porous three dimensional, hydroscopic, viscoelastic, anisotropic bio-polymer composite composed of an interconnecting matrix of cellulose, hemicelluloses and lignin with minor amounts of inorganic elements and organic extractives. Some, but not all, of the cell wall polymer hydroxyl groups are accessible to moisture and these accessible hydroxyls form hydrogen bonds with water. As the...

Understanding the mechanisms underlying plant biomass recalcitrance at the molecular level can only be achieved by accurate analyses of both the content and structural features of the molecules involved. Current quantification of lignin is, however, majorly based on unspecific gravimetric analysis after sulfuric acid hydrolysis. Hence, our research aimed at specific lignin quantification with c...

In this study, a large number of wood samples from several species of Eucalyptus, including E. grandis, E. urophylla, E. globulus, E. dunnii, E. camaldulensis and their crossing were characterized by pyrolysis-GC/MS method. All the measurements were done directly from the Eucalypus wood samples. S/G ratios were calculated for all guaiacyl and syringyl lignin pyrolysis derivatives. The results w...

Broussonetia papyrifera (Linn.) Vent has been attracting interest recently as a valuable wood source for pulping and papermaking manufacturing. The present study aims to determine the anatomical structure, ultrastructure and distribution of lignin in the fiber cell walls of this shrub, using electron microscopy, fluorescence microscopy (FM) and confocal Raman microscopy, which, to our knowledge...