Lignocellulosic Biomass as Source for Lignin-Based Environmentally Benign Antioxidants
- Antioxidant activity is an essential feature required for oxygen-sensitive merchandise and goods, such as food and corresponding packaging as well as materials used in cosmetics and biomedicine. For example, vanillin, one of the most prominent antioxidants, is fabricated from lignin, the second most abundant natural polymer in the world. Antioxidant potential is primarily related to the termination of oxidation propagation reactions through hydrogen transfer. The application of technical lignin as a natural antioxidant has not yet been implemented in the industrial sector, mainly due to the complex heterogeneous structure and polydispersity of lignin. Thus, current research focuses on various isolation and purification strategies to improve the compatibility of lignin material with substrates and enhancing its stabilizing effect.
Document Type: | Preprint |
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Language: | English |
Author: | Abla Alzagameem, Basma El Khaldi-Hansen, Dominik Büchner, Michael Larkins, Birgit Kamm, Steffen Witzleben, Margit Schulze |
Parent Title (German): | Preprints |
Number of pages: | 19 |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:1044-opus-40620 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201809.0265.v1 |
Publisher: | MDPI |
Place of publication: | Basel |
Publishing Institution: | Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg |
Date of first publication: | 2018/09/14 |
Publication status: | Peer-reviewed version available at Molecules 2018, 23, 2664; doi:10.3390/molecules23102664 |
Keyword: | Folin-Ciocalteu assay; antioxidant activity; biomass; lignin; lignocellulose feedstock; organosolv; total phenol content |
Departments, institutes and facilities: | Fachbereich Angewandte Naturwissenschaften |
Institut für Technik, Ressourcenschonung und Energieeffizienz (TREE) | |
Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC): | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 57 Biowissenschaften; Biologie / 570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie |
Entry in this database: | 2018/09/22 |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |