2023, Vol. 8, No. 2

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Frontier of digitalization in Biomass-to-X supply chain: opportunity or threats?
Adrian Chun Minh Loy, Karen Gah Hie Kong, Juin Yau Lim, Bing Shen How
2023, 8(2): 101-107. doi: 10.1016/j.jobab.2023.03.001
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The escalating climate crisis necessitates an urgent shift towards a sustainable business model. Under the context of bioeconomy, it has offered a promising alternative through its "Biomass-to-X" strategy for converting biological resources into valu...
Pichia as yeast cell factory for production of industrially important bio-products: Current trends, challenges, and future prospects
Akansha Shrivastava, Mamta Pal, Rakesh Kumar Sharma
2023, 8(2): 108-124. doi: 10.1016/j.jobab.2023.01.007
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Yeast has been used as a cell factory for thousands of years to produce a wide variety of complex biofuels, bioproducts, biochemicals, food ingredients, and pharmaceuticals. For a variety of biotechnological production hosts, a few specific genera of...
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Bioprocessing of underutilized Artocarpus altilis fruit to bioethanol by Saccharomyces cerevisiae: A fermentation condition improvement study
Eriola Betiku, Ebenezer O Olatoye, Lekan M. Latinwo
2023, 8(2): 125-135. doi: 10.1016/j.jobab.2023.03.002
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Raw materials availability needed for commercial bioethanol production is one of the challenges against its global adoption. Identifying rich, cheap, underused, and readily available starch sources for bioethanol production could help address the pro...
Super-anti-freezing, tough and adhesive titanium carbide and L-ornithine-enhanced hydrogels
Zhangkang Li, Jamie LeBlanc, Hitendra Kumar, Hongguang Zhang, Weijun Yang, Xiao He, Qingye Lu, Jeffrey Van Humbeck, Keekyoung Kim, Jinguang Hu
2023, 8(2): 136-145. doi: 10.1016/j.jobab.2023.01.005
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Hydrogels are highly porous three-dimensional crosslinked polymer networks consisting of hydrophilic polymers, employed most practically in medicine and industry, often as biosensors. Simple hydrogels suffer limitations in their mechanical properties...
Antimicrobial and antibiofilm activities of pomegranate peel phenolic compounds: Varietal screening through a multivariate approach
Amira Salim, Pierfrancesco Deiana, Francesco Fancello, Maria Giovanna Molinu, Mario Santona, Severino Zara
2023, 8(2): 146-161. doi: 10.1016/j.jobab.2023.01.006
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Pomegranates are rich in phenolic compounds and known for their antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and anticancer properties. The highest concentration of these compounds is found in the peel (exocarp and mesocarp), which constitutes about 50% of the wh...
Papaya peel waste carbon dots/reduced graphene oxide nanocomposite: From photocatalytic decomposition of methylene blue to antimicrobial activity
Hesam Salimi Shahraki, Rani Bushra, Nimra Shakeel, Anees Ahmad, Quratulen, Mehraj Ahmad, Christos Ritzoulis
2023, 8(2): 162-175. doi: 10.1016/j.jobab.2023.01.009
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Carbon dots (CDs) have gained unprecedented attention as a novel luminescent zero-dimensional carbon nanomaterial owing to their diverse industrial applications. Herein, we reported the sustainable synthesis of fluorescent CDs from papaya peel waste,...
Effect of silica source on photocatalytic properties of Bi2O3/Bi2SiO5 heterostructure
O.D. Arefieva, M.S. Vasilyeva, L.A. Zemnukhova, D.P. Opra, D.A. Nikolaeva, V.V. Tkachev, D.H. Shlyk
2023, 8(2): 176-186. doi: 10.1016/j.jobab.2023.03.003
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The Bi2O3/Bi2SiO5 heterostructures were obtained with various samples of silica as a precursor: on the basis of biogenic silica isolated from rice husk and rice straw and the silica of mineral origin. A mixture of Bi(NO3)3 and SiO2 with a mass conten...
Inhibitory effect of a Chinese quince seed peptide on protein glycation: A mechanism study
Yejun Deng, Xiang Wang, Caihong Zhang, Pujun Xie, Lixin Huang
2023, 8(2): 187-197. doi: 10.1016/j.jobab.2023.01.008
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Non-enzymatic glycation can cause the formation and accumulation of advanced glycation end products (AGEs), and it poses great threats to human health. It is urgent to search for safe and efficient inhibitors to prevent reducing sugar induced protein...
Efficient synthesis of alkyl levulinates fuel additives using sulfonic acid functionalized polystyrene coated coal fly ash catalyst
Yi Tian, Xiaoting Zhu, Shuolin Zhou, Wenguang Zhao, Qiong Xu, Xianxiang Liu
2023, 8(2): 198-213. doi: 10.1016/j.jobab.2023.01.003
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In this study, sulfonic acid functionalized polystyrene coated coal fly ash catalyst (CFA@PS-SO3H) was designed and prepared by the post-synthesis method, which exhibited excellent catalytic performance for esterification of levulinic acid (LA) to af...