NMR high-throughput screening of hydrolysates for determination of sugar release
Erica Gjersing, Robert Sykes, Renee Happs, Crissa Doeppke and Mark Davis, National Bioenergy Center and BioEnergy Science Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO

Estimation of biomass composition and saccharification kinetics using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy
Patanjali Varanasi¹, Manfred Auer², Paul Adams³, Blake A. Simmons⁴ and Seema Singh¹, (1)Deconstruction Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Emeryville, CA, (2)Joint BioEnergy Institute, Berkeley, CA, (3)Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA, (4)Deconstruction Division, Joint Bioenergy Institute, Emeryville, CA

Evaluating direct infusion electrospray ionization - ion mobility - high resolution mass spectrometry (DIESI-IM-HRMS) as a technique for rapid characterization of potential bioprocess streams
Christopher Becker, Sharon Munisamy and C. Kevin Chambliss, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Baylor University, Waco, TX

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Structural characterization of the impacts of alkaline hydrogen peroxide pretreatment on bioenergy feedstocks exhibiting diverse cell wall phenotypes
Muyang Li¹, Sivakumar Pattathil², Cliff E. Foster³, Michael G. Hahn² and David Hodge⁴, (1)Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, (2)Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, (3)DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, (4)Chemical Engineering and Material Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

Evaluation of sugarcane fibers using modern optical and spectroscopic methods
Priscila Maziero¹, Mario Oliveira Neto², Mahmut Ermeydan³, Michaela Eder³, Peter Fratzl³, Igor Polikarpov⁴ and Adilson Roberto Gonçalves⁵, (1)Biotechnology, Engineering School of Lorena - University of São Paulo, Lorena, Brazil, (2)Physics Institute of Sao Carlos, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Carlos, Brazil, (3)Biomaterial, Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany, (4)Departmento de Física e Informática, Instituto de Fisica de São Carlos (IFSC), Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Carlos, SP, Brazil, (5)University of São Paulo and Brazilian Bioethanol Science and Technology Laboratory, Lorena and Campinas, Brazil

Real-time imaging of plant cell wall structure at nanometer scale, with respect to cellulase accessibility and degradation kinetics
Yu-San Liu¹, Yining Zeng¹, John Baker¹, Qi Xu¹, Melvin Tucker², Michael E. Himmel¹, Steve Smith³, X. Sunney Xie⁴, Edward A. Bayer⁵ and Shi-You Ding¹, (1)Biosciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, (2)National Bioenergy Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, (3)Nano-Science & Engineering PhD Program, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD, (4)Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, (5)Department of Biological Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel