Although this journal mainly considers the study of cellulosic materials as sources of structural wood, fibers, chemicals, energy, and products such as paper, it would be short-sighted to view all trees as existing in order to meet such needs. An…

Pulp evaluations traditionally use plate dried handsheets. The evaluation of pulp could be improved significantly by evaluating handsheets that freely shrink when dried at the same time.

Cellulose is a naturally occurring material found in wood, cotton or hemp and consists of glucose moieties in -(1,4) linkage, forming the basic repeating unit. Chemic-ally it is similar to chitin and chitosan, a deacelytated form of chitin. It was…

What is the best way to minimize the environmental impact of using a product such as paper? Three debating teams were formed within a university class. One team advocated increased recycling of paper. Another team pointed to evidence showing reduced…

In this study, clove bud oil, which was cultivated in the Mediterranean region of Turkey, was provided from a private essential oil company in Turkey. Essential oil from clove (Syzygium aromaticum L.) was obtained from steam-distillation method, and its chemical…

The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of flax lignin and phenolic compounds obtained from spruce bark on the development of Lycopersicon esculentum plantlets. Depending on the applied treatment and the concentrations used, the natural aromatic compounds…

Major projects are underway in our laboratory focusing on mildly acidic (pH>3) and alkaline (pH

The sorption properties of lignin-wool composites towards oil pollution at different concentrations of the contamination were studied. The release ability of oil pollutant was studied by a gravimetric method and by determining the chemical oxygen demand of cleaned water. It…

Many readers and contributors to BioResources are working to develop sustainable technology. Such research attempts to use products of photosynthesis to meet long-term human needs with a minimum of environmental impact. Archeological and historical studies have concluded that the long-term…

To accurately estimate the saccharifying activity of crude cellulase preparations for insoluble cellulosics, a practical approach was designed. The interferences by changes in hydrolysis time and concentration of cellulase and cellulosics on the assay could be overcome by selection of…