6: Biomass Physicochemical Analysis

Tuesday, May 1, 2012: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Waterbury Ballroom, 2nd fl (Sheraton New Orleans)
Chair:
Kevin Chambliss
8:00 AM
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
8:30 AM
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
9:30 AM
Break/Exhibits open Napoleon Foyer, 3rd fl
10:00 AM
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
10:30 AM
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
11:00 AM
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
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