image: Furfural from white birch. Hemicellulose is converted into furfural at high yields and can then be used to produce plastics, resins and biofuels. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the May 19, 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by D.M. Alonso at University of Wisconsin-Madison in Madison, Wis., and colleagues was titled, "Increasing the revenue from lignocellulosic biomass: Maximizing feedstock utilization." view more
Credit: [Credit: Glucan Biorenewables LLC.]