Revealing the structure and distribution changes of Eucalyptus lignin during the hydrothermal and alkaline pretreatments

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Wang, Chenzhou ^a   Li, Hanyin ^a   Li, Mingfei ^a   Bian, Jing ^a   Sun, Runcang ^a,b  

^a BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALI; CARBOHYDRATE; LIGNIN;

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; EUCALYPTUS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONLINEAR OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALKALIES; CARBOHYDRATES; EUCALYPTUS; LIGNIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONLINEAR OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SUGARS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 85017154330     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-00711-w     Document Type: Article

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