UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Lignin is one of the three major components in plant cell walls, and it can be isolated (dissolved) from the cell wall in pretreatment or chemical pulping. However, there is a lack of high-value applications for lignin, and the commonest proposal for lignin is power and steam generation through combustion. Organosolv ethanol process is one of the effective pretreatment ...

Polyene macrolide antibiotics are naturally occurring antifungal agents. Members of this class include amphotericin B, which has been used widely to treat systemic fungal infections. A general synthetic strategy has been devised to prepare polyol chains associated with the polyene macrolides. Cyanohydrin acetonide alkylations were used to assemble the carbon skeleton, and a simple modification ...

The synthesis of Fe, Fe-Pt and Fe-Co nanoparticles were carried out using the bottom-up polyol process using standard ari free techniques. Using these nanoparticles, multiwalled carbon nanotubes were synthesized in an atmospheric pressure plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition(APPECVD) process with a mixture of helium and acetylene gases. The APPECVD process produced dense carbon nanotube fo...

We report Pt-Pd nanoparticles synthesized by means of a polyol process with glycerol as a reducing agent. The Pt-Pd nanoparticles exhibit dominantly exposed {111} facets in octahedral shape with complete alloy formation between Pt and Pd. Furthermore, the octahedral Pt-Pd alloy catalysts show improved catalytic activity and stability in methanol electrooxidation.

we report the direct soft chemical synthesis and characterization of a family of face centered cubic (fcc) and partially ordered face centered tetragonal (fct) fept nanoparticles (nps) suitable for biomedical applications. both fcc and partially ordered fct-fept nps are synthesized by employing a simple polyol method. by using polyvinyl pyrolidone (pvp) as a stabilizer in various ratios during ...

We demonstrate a simple water washing process for large-scale fabrication of highly ordered and aligned rectangular silver nanowire monolayers from polyol systems. These monolayers exhibit unique structure-dependent chemical reactivities for the galvanic replacement reaction with HAuCl(4), and novel gold nanoneedle arrays with sharp tips and a uniform structure have been produced.