It’s Entirely About Character: The Digest’s 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to Characterizing Lignocellulosic Biomass

Why characterize biomass? Lignocellulosic biomass is a complex biopolymer and its properties vary depending on its species, growth environments and conversion processes. Characteristics of biomass provide valuable insights for biomass utilization. Diverse characterization methods have been developed to elucidate physicochemical, thermal and morphological properties of biomass and its products.

Art Ragauskas of The University of Tennessee‐Knoxville (and Oak Ridge) and Hugh Michael O’Neill and Timothy J. Tschaplinski of Oak Ridge National Laboratory prepared this illuminating overview of Characterization Strategies for Lignocellulosic Biomass.