Neutron technologies for bioenergy research

Industrial Biotechnology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 209-216

  Langan, Paul ^a   Evans, Barbara R ^a   Foston, Marcus ^b   Heller, William T ^a   O'Neill, Hugh ^a,c   Petridis, Loukas ^a,c   Pingali, Sai Venkatesh ^a   Ragauskas, Arthur J ^b   Smith, Jeremy C ^a,c   Urban, Volker S ^a   Davison, Brian H ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

bioenergy; biomass; biomass pretreatment; cellulose; computer simulation; lignin; neutron scattering

Indexed keywords

BIO-ENERGY; CONTRAST VARIATION; DEUTERIUM LABELING; DIRECT RADIATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; INDUSTRIAL PROCESSS; LENGTH SCALE; LIGNOCELLULOSIC BIOMASS; NEUTRON TECHNOLOGY; PICOSECONDS; PRE-TREATMENT; SAMPLE ENVIRONMENT; SCATTERING LEVELS; SIMULATION AND MODELING; TIME-SCALES;

BIOFUELS; BIOMASS; CELLULOSE; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEUTERIUM; HYDROGEN; LIGNIN; NEUTRONS; RADIATION DAMAGE;

NEUTRON SCATTERING;

EID: 84865212769     PISSN: 15509087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ind.2012.0012     Document Type: Review

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