Niche position and opportunities for woody biomass conversion

RSC Green Chemistry

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 151-179

  Amidon, Thomas E ^a,b   Bujanovic, Biljana ^b   Liu, Shijie ^b   Hasan, Asif ^b   Howard, Joel R ^a  

^a Applied Biorefinery Sciences LLC   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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