Biofuels and Bioproducts from Lignocellulosic Materials

Dr. Minaxi Sharma is currently working as Senior Researcher at Laboratoire de Biotechnologie et BiologieAppliquée, CARAH ASBL and Laboratoire de “Chimieverte et ProduitsBiobasés”, at HPEH-Condorcet, Belgium. Dr. Sharma has more than 11 years of extensive teaching and research experience in food technology, nanoencapsulation, development of functional foods using micro/nano-colloidal delivery systems, food waste valorization for valuable plant-bioactive nutrients, and the development of vegan alternatives to replace the meat-based additives from food chain. She is the editor of few international journals including, Scientific Reports (Nature), Nanofabrication, Biomaterials and Polymers Horizon, Medicinal Plants - International Journal of Phytomedicines and Related Industries; Microbial Biosystems; and EUREKA: Life Sciences. She has also experience as guest editor in special issues of reputed journals include, International Journal of Food Microbiology, Biotechnology Reports, Biomolecules, Frontiers in Nutrition, Bioengineering, Gels, Agronomy etc. Dr. Deepti Diwan is a research instructor in the Department of Neurosurgery at Washington University School of medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA. Dr. Diwan has garnered more than ten years of multidisciplinary research experience in diverse fields, including cancer, epigenetics, erythropoiesis, genomics, hemorrhagic stroke, microbiology/virology, nanotechnology, nanomedicine, protein-carbohydrate interactions, and radiation biology. She contributed to numerous research and review articles and presented academic and research-based papers at several national and international conferences. She also serves as an editor of international journals, namely, Biomaterials and Polymers Horizon, Nanofabrication, and Microbial Biosystems. Dr. Diwan and her group developed Genome Profiling (GP) technology and Microarray-with-Manageable Volumes (MMV) techniques. They were the first to successfully test the application of GP and MMV at the single-cell level to detect intra-organism differences. Yogendra Kumar Mishra is Professor MSO and Leader of Smart Materials group at Mads Clausen Institute, University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Sønderborg, Denmark. Prior to SDU, he was leading an independent research group on 3D Nanomaterials at Functional Nanomaterials Chair, Kiel University, where he introduced the new flame-based technology for tetrapod nanostructuring including their 3D highly porous networks as flexible ceramics. He is collaborating with prestigious laboratories worldwide and maintains a large collaborative research network and is very active in science communication with society. He has received many notable awards, like, Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (2008), Young Investigator Award (under 40) from BHJ Fonden-Denmark and has won several successful grants. Prof. Mishra is very well known worldwide for his research activities on 'Functional Tetrapod based Nanology'. Dr. Yevgen Karpichev is a Senior Research Scientist and Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering team leader at Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), Estonia. Prior joining ERA Chair of Green Chemistry at TalTech in 2015, he was a Visiting Researcher at University of California, Santa Barbara (USA), postdoctoral fellow at Dalhousie University (Canada), CNRS Visiting Researcher at IECB (Bordeaux) and Laboratory of IMRCP (Toulouse). Visiting Professor at Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse, France) and University of Hradec Kralove (Czech Republic). The scientific expertise covers designing safer chemical and formulation using green chemistry principles, biodegradations studies, tuning nanostructures, chemical decontamination, green chemistry approaches to replace hazardous chemicals; chemical methods for biomass (lignin and lignocellulose) valorisation. Prof. Dr. Vijai Kumar Gupta is working as an Associate Professor and Bioprocess Engineering Lead at the School of Biotechnology at Dublin City University, Ireland. The overall focus of his research is on developing bioprocess technologies to valorise available bioresources (including dairy waste-streams) to produce value-added bioproducts and fuels. He has several articles, book chapters, and books with an author H-index of 81. Also, he is the editor of several reputed journals, including Biotechnology Advances, Critical Reviews in Biotechnology, Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, Environmental Chemistry Letters, Microbial Cell Factories, Microbiome, Mycosphere. He is listed among the world’s top 2% of scientists by Stanford University-USA

Volume III: Biomaterials 1. Biomaterials: properties, types, production, and applications 2. Microbial applications in lignocelluloses: scale up of biomaterial production and challenges 3. Recent approaches for synthesizing bioplastics from lignocellulosic wastes 4. Biochemistry of bio-adhesives extracted from lignocellulosic biomass and their applications 5. Valorization of lignocellulosic biomass into polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) and polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB)Biochemical profiling of biomaterials derived from hemicelluloses and their applications for human welfare 6. Lignocellulosic biomass based development of nanomaterials 7. Use of lignocellulosic biomass for sustainable production of polylactic acid (PLA) 8. Valorization of lignocellulosic biomass into polybutyl succinate (PBS): a greener approach with biochemistry perspectives 9. Recent advanced techniques for furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) production from lignocellulosic biomass: challenges and future perspectives 10. Sustainable carbon nanomaterials production from lignocellulosic biomass 11. Sustainable active carrier materials production and their chemical profiling from lignocellulosic biomass 12. Bio-based Food packaging materials derived from lignocellulosic agricultural biomass 13. Wound healing materials synthesis from lignocellulosic biomass for pharmaceutical applications: a sustainable approach 14. Biochemistry of lignocellulosic biomass-based hydrogels and its applications: a sustainable approach 15. Sustainable production of green and renewable aerogels from lignocellulosic agro-wastes 16. Dye dispersants synthesis from lignocellulosic biomass: advancements and future perspectives 17. Recent advancements and challenges in adsorbents production from lignocellulosic biomass 18. Sustainable biomaterial production: case studies and engineering 19. Process modelling, post processing challenges in lignocellulosic based technology scale-up 20. Lignocellulosic based biomaterials: technoeconomic and life cycle assessments