Chapter 1: Nanoporous Organic Frameworks for Biomass Conversion
 
Authors: Xiang Zhu, Chi-Linh Do-Thanh and Sheng Dai
 
1.Introduction
 
2.Nanoporous Crystalline Organic Frameworks Metal-promoted organic transformations in glycerol
 
3.Nano porous Organic Sulfonated Resins
 
4.Conclusions and Perspective
 
References
 
Chapter 2: Activated Carbon and Ordered Mesoporous Carbon-based Catalysts for Biomass Conversion
 
Authors: Xiaochen Zhao, Jifeng Pang, Guangyi Li, Fei Liu, Jinming Xu, Mingyuan Zheng, Ning Li, Changzhi Li, Aiqin Wang, and Tao Zhang
 
1.Introduction
 
2.Activated Carbon and Mesoporous carbon
 
3.Cellulose conversion
 
4.Lignin conversion
 
5.Synthesis of Biofuel (diesel or jet fuel) from lignocellulose
 
6.Summary
 
References
 
Chapter 3: Nanoporous Carbon/Nitrogen-Materials and Their Hybrids for Biomass Conversion
 
Authors: Hui Su, Hong-Hui Wang, Tian-Jian Zhao, Xin-Hao Li
 
1.Introduction
 
2.Dehydrogenation of Formic Acid
 
3.Transfer Hydrogenation of Unsaturated Compounds from Formic Acid
 
4.Synthesis of Highly Value-added Chemicals from Biomass
 
5.Metal-free Catalyst - Graphene Oxide for the Conversion of Fructose
 
6.Conclusions and Outlook
 
References
 
Chapter 4: Recent developments in the use of porous carbon materials for cellulose conversion
 
Authors: Abhijit Shrotri, Hirokazu Kobayashi and Atsushi Fukuoka
 
1.Introduction
 
2.Overview of catalytic cellulose hydrolysis
 
3.Functionalized carbon catalyst for cellulose hydrolysis
 
4.Summary and outlook
 
References
 
Chapter 5: Ordered Mesoporous Silica-Based Catalysts for Biomass Conversion
 
Authors: Liang Wang, Shaodan Xu, Xiangju Meng, Feng-Shou Xiao
 
1.Introduction
 
2.Sulfated Ordered Mesoporous Silicas
 
3.Ordered Mesoporous Silica Supported Polyoxometalates and Sulfated Metal Oxides
 
4.Hetero-atom doped ordered mesoporous silica
 
5.Ordered Mesoporous Silica Supported Metal Nanoparticles
 
6.Overall Summary and Outlook
 
References
 
Chapter 6: Porous polydivinylbenzene based solid catalysts for biomass transformation reactions
 
Authors: Fujian Liu and Yao Lin
 
1.Introduction
 
2.Synthesis of porous PDVB-based solid acids and investigate their catalytic performances
 
3.Perspectives in the PDVB based solid catalysts and their application for biomass transformations
 
Acknowledgement
 
References
 
Chapter 7: Designing zeolite catalysts to convert glycerol, rice straw and for bio-gasoline direct synthesis from bio-syngas
 
Authors: Chuang Xing, Guohui Yang, Ruiqin Yang and Noritatsu Tsubaki
 
1.Glycerol Convert to Propanediols
 
2.Rice Straw Hydrogenation
 
3.Bio- Gasoline Direct Synthesis
 
References
 
Chapter 8: Catalytic Depolymerization of Lignin to Fuels and Chemicals: A Review
 
Authors: Zhicheng Luo, Jiechen Kong, Liubi Wu, Chen Zhao
 
1.Introduction
 
2.Developed techniques for lignin depolymerization
 
3.Oxidative depolymerization of lignin
 
4.Hydrolysis of lignin with base and acid catalysts
 
5.Other depolymerization techniques (cracking, photocatalysis, electrocatalysis, and biocatalysis)
 
6.Conclusions
 
Acknowledgement
 
References
 
Chapter 9: Mesoporous Zeolite for Biomass Conversion
 
Authors: Liang Wang, Shaodan Xu, Xiangju Meng, Feng-Shou Xiao
 
1.Introduction
 
2.Production of biofuels
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