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Development of Sustainable Carbohydrate-Based Solvents by Acetal Functionalisation of Biomass
Organic solvents are ubiquitous in industrial and domestic applications from the production of pharmaceuticals to household consumer products. The negative impact of most traditional solvents, especially aprotic types, on the environment, health, and safet ...
EPFL2024cgNA+: A sequence-dependent coarse-grain model of double-stranded nucleic acids
DNA mechanics plays a crucial role in many biological processes, including nucleosome positioning and protein-DNA interactions. It is believed that nature employs epigenetic modifications in DNA to further regulate gene expression. Moreover, double-strande ...
EPFL2023Tunable biocomposite films fabricated using cellulose nanocrystals and additives for food packaging
Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) are considered a prospective packaging material to partially replace petroleumbased plastics attributed to their renewability, sustainability, biodegradability, and desirable attributes including transparency, oxygen, and oil ...
ELSEVIER SCI LTD2023Development of remote C-H bond functionalization of redox-active alcohol derivatives and oxidative transformations under photoredox catalysis
Alexandre Julien Florent Leclair
The development of radical-based remote C(sp3)-H functionalizations of redox-active alcohol derivatives, oxidative cycloaddition and rearrangement transformations under visible light photocatalysis constitute the basis of this thesis.The first chapter desc ...
EPFL2021Multiple nest entrances alter foraging and information transfer in ants
The ecological success of ants relies on their ability to discover and collectively exploit available resources. In this process, the nest entrances are key locations at which foragers transfer food and information about the surrounding environment. We ass ...
ROYAL SOC2020Contrasting Leaf Trait Responses of Conifer and Broadleaved Seedlings to Altered Resource Availability Are Linked to Resource Strategies
Christoph Bachofen, Yan Li Zhang
(1) Understanding tree seedling responses to water, nutrient, and light availability is crucial to precisely predict potential shifts in composition and structure of forest communities under future climatic conditions. (2) We exposed seedlings of widesprea ...
2020Production, characterization and upgrading of biomass-derived acetal-stabilized carbohydrates
Biomass is an attractive source of renewable carbon-based fuels and chemicals. Multiple research efforts are centered around integrated biorefineries, where all fractions of biomass are converted to fuels or chemical products. These efforts are focused aro ...
EPFL2019Catalytic Upgrading of Biomass-Derived Carboxylic Acids to Fuels and Chemicals
Our reliance on fossil fuels, which is unsustainable due to dwindling reserves, has led to various environmental issues. Lignocellulosic biomass could serve as a renewable source of carbon and energy for the production of fuels and chemicals. While several ...
EPFL2019Bioconversion of pentose sugars to value added chemicals and fuels: Recent trends, challenges and possibilities
Edgard Gnansounou, Vinod Kumar
Most of the crop plants contain about 30% of hemicelluloses comprising D-xylose and D-arabinose. One of the major limitation for the use of pentose sugars is that high purity grade D-xylose and D-arabinose are yet to be produced as commodity chemicals. Res ...
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