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Lignocellulosic biomass

  • Glossary item | 19 Mar 2025
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Lignocellulosic biomass (LB) is an abundant and renewable resource from plants mainly composed of polysaccharides (cellulose and hemicelluloses) and an aromatic polymer (lignin).

Zoghlami Aya, Paës Gabriel, Lignocellulosic Biomass: Understanding Recalcitrance and Predicting Hydrolysis, Frontiers in Chemistry, Volume 7, 2019, DOI=10.3389/fchem.2019.00874

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Zoghlami A., et al., 2019

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LB
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19 Mar 2025

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