The demand for vanillin vastly outstrips the natural resources of this flavoring agent. A chemical process is thus used to produce the required large quantities of vanillin from petroleum, which is ...
A new study shows how plants “encode” specific chemistries of their lignin to grow tall and sustain climate changes: each plant cell uses different combinations of the enzymes LACCASEs to create ...
(Nanowerk News) What is photonic wood you ask? Inspired by the unique UV light absorption and photo-excitation of lignin, a team of researchers from the University of Maryland in situ chemically ...