Phase change materials (PCMs) have attracted considerable attention as a thermal energy management technology for thermal storage. However, achieving high energy-storing abilities, low leakage rates, and solar absorption abilities simultaneously in PCMs remains greatly challenging. This research proposed a green strategy for preparing sorghum straw-based PCMs. By facile delignification and solvothermal process, delignified sorghum straw (DSS) and carbon quantum dots (CQDs) derived from removal lignin are prepared. The obtained PEG@CQDs/DSS possessed considerable reusable stabilities, excellent photo-thermal conversion properties, and thermal energy management capacities due to the delicate micropores and intrinsic noncovalent interactions among components. Especially, the PEG@CQDs-7.5/DSS exhibited superior solar-thermal conversion capabilities (with conducive photo-thermal conversion efficiency ~90.84%), and kept stable after 100 cycles of heating and cooling, in which the melting enthalpy value is ~168.1 J/g (enthalpy efficiency of ~91.11%). In conclusion, the synthesized PCMs showed potential for application in energy-saving and building thermal management.
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Int J Biol Macromol
March 2024
School of Agricultural Engineering and Food Science, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo 255000, China; Shandong Research Center of Engineering and Technology for Clean Energy, Zibo 255000, China. Electronic address:
Phase change materials (PCMs) have attracted considerable attention as a thermal energy management technology for thermal storage. However, achieving high energy-storing abilities, low leakage rates, and solar absorption abilities simultaneously in PCMs remains greatly challenging. This research proposed a green strategy for preparing sorghum straw-based PCMs.
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February 2022
Tecnológico Nacional de México/I. T. de Veracruz-UNIDA, Veracruz, México.
The objective of this work was to evaluate the biochemical characteristics of an enzymatic extract obtained from autochthonous fungus Aspergillus niger ITV02 and its application in the enzymatic hydrolysis of wheat straw and corn stubble pretreated by steam explosion. The enzymatic extract was obtained by submerged fermentation using delignified sweet sorghum bagasse as a carbon source. The results obtained showed that the enzymatic extract had β-glucosidase and endoglucanase activities.
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April 2021
Center of Innovative and Applied Bioprocessing (DBT-CIAB), Mohali, Punjab, India.
A novel endoglucanase gene, cel , was cloned from a thermal spring metagenome. The gene was expressed in Escherichia coli, and the protein was extracted and purified. The protein catalyzed the hydrolysis of amorphous cellulose in a wide range of temperatures, 30-95°C, with optimal activity at 80°C.
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November 2020
Cátedra-CONACYT, Tecnológico Nacional de México/Instituto Tecnológico de Veracruz-UNIDA, Av. M. A. de Quevedo Núm. 2779, C.P. 91860, Veracruz, VER, Mexico.
Objectives: To evaluate a strain of Fusarium verticillioides ITV03 isolated from wood residues in the Veracruz region of Mexico. Endoglucanase and β-glucosidase production by submerged fermentation was optimized using a Box-Behnken design, where the independent variables were urea, ammonium sulfate and yeast extract.
Results: After optimization, an endoglucanase activity of 0.
Int J Biol Macromol
January 2016
Key Laboratory of Renewable Energy, Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China.
Lignin layers surrounding hemicelluloses and cellulose in the plant cell walls protect them from deconstruction. This recalcitrance to sugar release is a major limitation for cost-effective industrial conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to biofuels. Many literatures had reported the contribution of lignin removal to cellulose accessibility to enzyme, but less to the hemicellulose hydrolysis.
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