Fractional Precipitation of Wheat Straw Organosolv Lignin: Macroscopic Properties and Structural Insights

ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 5136-5151

  Lange, Heiko ^a   Schiffels, Peter ^b   Sette, Marco ^a   Sevastyanova, Olena ^c   Crestini, Claudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY AND ADVANCED MATERIALS IFAM   (Germany)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

31P NMR; Antioxidant activity; DSC; Fractional precipitation; HSQC0; logP; Organosolv lignin; QQ HSQC; TGA; XPS

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; ANTIOXIDANTS; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANTS; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; HEXANE; LIGNIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; STRAW; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

ANTI-OXIDANT ACTIVITIES; FRACTIONAL PRECIPITATION; HSQC0; LOGP; ORGANOSOLV LIGNIN; QQ-HSQC;

GLASS TRANSITION;

ANTIOXIDANTS; ORGANOSOLV LIGNINS; PRECIPITATION;

EID: 84989949112     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21680485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.6b01475     Document Type: Article

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