The innovative catalytic system from Umeå University transforms lignin into valuable chemical products, promoting efficient ...

Researchers at Umeå University in Sweden, in collaboration with scientists from Finland, Vietnam, India, and Italy, have ...

Although the components of wood – cellulose and lignin – are exceedingly cheap and plentiful, combining these into a wood-like structure is not straightforward, despite many attempts to make ...

One of the problems besetting the production of fuels from biomass is that millions of years of evolution have made plants decidedly resistant to the idea. A plant does not particularly want to be ...

A new book details how lignin once protected algae from UV radiation, then later in evolutionary time became a structural support for trees. The following is an excerpt from When the Earth Was Green: ...