Ultrastructural development of the softwood cell wall during pyrolysis

Holzforschung

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 248-253

  Zollfrank, Cordt ^a   Fromm, Jörg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cell wall; Elemental analysis; Softwood pyrolysis; Transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

CELLULOSE; CELLULOSE DERIVATIVES; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PYROLYSIS; SOFTWOODS; WOOD;

CELL WALL; CELLULOSE MICROFIBRILS; ELEMENTAL ANALYSIS; ELEMENTAL COMPOSITIONS; LOCAL ORIENTATIONS; MICROFIBRIL ORIENTATIONS; MIDDLE LAMELLAS; MILD TEMPERATURES; NOVEL METHODS; PINE WOODS; POLYOSES; PYROLYTIC CONVERSIONS; SOFTWOOD PYROLYSIS; SUPRAMOLECULAR STRUCTURES; TEM;

TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CELL WALLS; CELLULOSE; CELLULOSE DERIVATIVES; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONVERSION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PYROLYSIS; SOFTWOODS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EID: 59449092871     PISSN: 00183830     EISSN: 1437434X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/HF.2009.031     Document Type: Article

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