alternatives, biomasses have garnered tremendous interests as potential feedstock for clean energy production. While numerous … recalcitrant nature of several feedstock presents a major technological obstacle for their processing and transformation …

focused on overcoming technical challenges in bioconversion, particularly pretreatment, and finding the solutions required to … reviewed, and the key technical issues in bioconversion of cellulosic ethanol, such as pretreatment and factors affecting …

Lignocellulosic materials are potentially a relatively inexpensive and abundant feedstock for biofuel production. The … key to unlocking lignocelluloses recalcitrance is in part, the development of an effective pretreatment process. A … promising new pretreatment method for lignocellulosic materials is the use of ionic liquids (ILs). ILs are non-volatile solvents …