A peer-reviewed, open-access journal devoted to the science of lignocellulosic materials, chemicals, and their new and improved applications. Rearch areas of interest include wood products, paper science, lignocellulosic energy, chemical products of cellulosic materials, biocomposites, and novel uses material derived from woody material.
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Vol 8, No 3 (2013)
Table of Contents
Editorials (Opinion Pieces)
| Reconsidering the Concept of Dry Surface Treatment of Cellulosic Paper to Produce Coated Paper Products | |
| Fei Yang, Jing Shen | 3177-3180 |
Research Articles (Peer Reviewed)
| Biobleaching of Wheat Straw Pulp using Laccase and Xylanase | |
| Guilong Xu, Xiwen Wang, Jian Hu | 3181-3188 |
| Determination of the Surface Roughness of Heat-Treated Wood Materials Planed by the Cutters of a Horizontal Milling Machine | |
| Mehmet Budakçı, Abdullah Cemil İlçe, Tuğba Gürleyen, Mustafa Utar | 3189-3199 |
| One-Step Heterogeneous Catalytic Process for the Dehydration of Xylan into Furfural | |
| Hui-Ling Li, Shuai-Yang Wang, Wen-Ju Wang, Jun-Li Ren, Feng Peng, Run-Cang Sun, Lei Liang | 3200-3211 |
| Impact of Pulp Consistency on Refining Process Conducted under Constant Intensity Determined by SEL and SEC Factors | |
| Konrad Olejnik | 3212-3230 |
| Micromechanics of Mechanical, Thermomechanical, and Chemi-Thermomechanical Pulp from Orange Tree Pruning as Polypropylene Reinforcement: A Comparative Study | |
| Rafel Reixach, Elena Franco-Marquès, Nour-Eddine El Mansouri, Francisco Ramirez de Cartagena, Gerard Arbat, Francesc X. Espinach, Pere Mutjé | 3231-3246 |
| Simultaneous Separation and Quantification of Linear Xylo- and Cello-Oligosaccharides Mixtures in Lignocellulosics Processing Products on High-Performance Anion-Exchange Chromatography Coupled with Pulsed Amperometric Detection | |
| Yong Xu, Li Fan, Xing Wang, Qiang Yong, Shi-Yuan Yu | 3247-3259 |
| Modified Cocoa Pod Husk-Filled Polypropylene Composites by Using Methacrylic Acid | |
| Seong Chun Koay, Salmah Husseinsyah, Hakimah Osman | 3260-3275 |
| Application of Mechanical Models to Flax Fiber /Wood Fiber/ Plastic Composites | |
| Yan Cao, Weihong Wang, Qingwen Wang, Haigang Wang | 3276-3288 |
| Covalent Immobilization of Lipase onto Citric Acid-Esterified Loofah Sponge | |
| Jun Zhu, Jian Zhang, Qiumei Lai, Bo Jiang, Renmin Gong | 3289-3298 |
| Performance of Copper-Ethanolamine-impregnated Scots Pine Wood during Exposure to Terrestrial Microorganisms | |
| Nejc Thaler, Boštjan Lesar, Miha Humar | 3299-3308 |
| Removal of Cu(II) from Ethanol Fuel Using Mandarin Peel as Biosorbent | |
| Gabriela Costa Ribeiro, Luciana Melo Coelho, Eliezer Oliveira, Nívia M. M. Coelho | 3309-3321 |
| Effect of Environmental Conditions on the Mechanical Properties and Fungal Degradation of Polycaprolactone/ Microcrystalline Cellulose/Wood Flour Composites | |
| Ronald Sabo, Liwei Jin, Nicole Stark, Rebecca E. Ibach | 3322-3335 |
| Mechanical Properties Evaluation of Coir Toughened Unsaturated Polyester with Different Reinforced Body Forms | |
| Jia Yao, Wei Lu, Shoufan Rong, Yingcheng Hu | 3336-3346 |
| The Impact of Synthesis Conditions on the Structure and Properties of Di-(Stearylamidoethyl) Epoxypropyl Ammonium Chloride | |
| Mei Xu, Mengdie Xu, Hongqi Dai, Shumei Wang, Weibing Wu | 3347-3357 |
| Influence of Chemical Components of Oil Palm on Properties of Binderless Particleboard | |
| Junidah Lamaming, Othman Sulaiman, Tomoko Sugimoto, Rokiah Hashim, Norafizah Said, Masatoshi Sato | 3358-3371 |
| Changes in Temperature and Moisture Content in Beech Wood Plasticized by Microwave Heating | |
| Miroslav Gašparík, Milan Gaff | 3372-3384 |
| Improved Fiber Separation and Energy Reduction in Thermomechanical Pulp Refining Using Enzyme-Pretreated Wood | |
| Andre Lucien Pelletier, Yu Zhao, Xiaochun Lei, Kecheng Li | 3385-3398 |
| Bio-oil and Biochar as Additional Revenue Streams in South American Kraft Pulp Mills | |
| Marcelo Hamaguchi, Jussi Saari, Esa Vakkilainen | 3399-3413 |
| Electromagnetic-shielding, Wood-based Material Created Using a Novel Electroless Copper Plating Process | |
| Lijuan Wang, Jian Li | 3414-3425 |
| Delignification of Phragmites karka – a Wetland Grass – by Soda Pulping Process | |
| Lalit Kumar, Dharm Dutt, Amit Bharti | 3426-3437 |
| Physical and Mechanical Properties of Hydroxypropyl Methylcellulose–Coated Paper as Affected by Coating Weight and Coating Composition | |
| Khaoula Khwaldia | 3438-3452 |
| Influence of Microwave Heating on the Liquefaction Kinetics of Corn Stover in Ethylene Glycol | |
| Zhenning Li, Lujia Han, Weihua Xiao | 3453-3460 |
| Application of Citrus sinensis Solid Waste as a Pseudo-Catalyst for Free Cyanide Conversion under Alkaline Conditions | |
| Bruno Alexandre Quistorp Santos, Seteno Karabo Obed Ntwampe, James Hamuel Doughari, Gift Muchatibaya | 3461-3467 |
| Neutral Sulfite Treatment of Lignocellulosic Pulps | |
| Elina Warsta, Tapani Vuorinen | 3468-3478 |
| Study of Ni/Char Catalyst for Biomass Gasification in an Updraft Gasifier: Influence of Catalyst Granular Size on Catalytic Performance | |
| Duo Wang | 3479-3489 |
| Hemicellulose Extraction from South African Eucalyptus grandis using Green Liquor and its Impact on Kraft Pulping Efficiency and Paper Making Properties | |
| Jonas Johakimu, Jerome Andrew | 3490-3504 |
| Preparation of Lignin-Based Anion Exchangers and their Utilization for Nitrate Removal | |
| Zhen Wang, Nana Bo, Yu Liu, Guihua Yang, Ying Liu, Yuan Zhao | 3505-3517 |
| Hydrotropic Fractionation of Birch Wood into Cellulose and Lignin: A New Step Towards Green Biorefinery | |
| Konstantin Gabov, Pedro Fardim, Francides Gomes da Silva Júnior | 3518-3531 |
| Mechanical Properties Research and Structural Characterization of Alkali Lignin / Poly(vinyl alcohol) Reaction Films | |
| Ling Su, Zhihua Xing, Di Wang, Guanhao Xu, Shixue Ren, Guizhen Fang | 3532-3543 |
| Flocculation Performance of Trimethyl Quaternary Ammonium Salt of Lignin-Sodium Alginate Polyampholyte | |
| Qiong Zhang, Di Wang, Ying Bei, Shixue Ren, Guizhen Fang | 3544-3555 |
| Study on the use of Roasted Barley Powder for Adsorption of Cu2+ Ions in Batch Experiments and in Fixed-bed Columns | |
| Raimundo N. P. Teixeira, Vicente O. Sousa Neto, Juliene T. Oliveira, Thalles C. Oliveira, Diego Q. Melo, Marcos A. A. Silva, Ronaldo F. Nascimento | 3556-3573 |
| Preparation of a Crosslinking Cassava Starch Adhesive and its Application in Coating Paper | |
| Songlin Wang, Fangfang Zhang, Fushan Chen, Zhiqiang Pang | 3574-3589 |
| Developing Environmentally Friendly Wood Composite Panels by Nanotechnology | |
| Zeki Candan, Turgay Akbulut | 3590-3598 |
| Fabricating Eco-Friendly Binderless Fiberboard from Laccase-Treated Rubber Wood Fiber | |
| Mohammed Nasir, Arun Gupta, M. D. H. Beg, Gek Kee Chua, Mohammad Jawaid, Anuj Kumar, Tanveer Ahmed Khan | 3599-3608 |
| Interaction between Nano TiO2 and Simulacra of Dissolved and Colloidal Substances in the Process Water of a Paper Machine | |
| Xueyan Deng, Xiaoquan Chen, Yan Li, Wenhao Shen | 3609-3619 |
| Biomass Gasification in an Air-Blown Down-Draft Gasifier: Determination of Tar Compounds from Producer Gas | |
| Henrik Romar, Tynjälä Pekka, Ulla Lassi | 3620-3629 |
| The Effect of Carbon and Nitrogen Sources on Bacterial Cellulose Production and Properties from Gluconacetobacter sucrofermentans CECT 7291 Focused on its use in Degraded Paper Restoration | |
| Sara M. Santos, José M. Carbajo, Juan Carlos Villar | 3630-3645 |
| Physical Properties and Printability Characteristics of Mechanical Printing Paper with LWC | |
| Jafar Ebrahimpour Kasmani, Saeed Mahdavi, Abdollah Alizadeh, Mohammad Nemati, Ahmad Samariha | 3646-3656 |
| Purification and Characterization of beta 1,4-Glucanases from Penicillium simplicissimum H-11 | |
| Hongzhi Bai, Hui Wang, Junde Sun, Muhammad Irfan, Mei Han, Yuqian Huang, Xiaori Han, Qian Yang | 3657-3671 |
| Modeling of the Mechanical Properties of a Wood-Fiber/Bicomponent-Fiber Composite | |
| Herman van Dyk, Perry Peralta, Ilona Peszlen | 3672-3684 |
| Transformation and Products Distribution of Moso Bamboo and Derived Components During Pyrolysis | |
| Xue-Yong Ren, Zhong-Tao Zhang, Wen-Liang Wang, Hui Si, Xiao Wang, Jian-Min Chang | 3685-3698 |
| A Novel Method for the Determination of Hydrogen Peroxide in Bleaching Effluents by Spectroscopy | |
| Qian Zhang, Shiyu Fu, Hailong Li, Yu Liu | 3699-3705 |
| Direct Synthesis of Gold Nanocatalysts on TEMPO-oxidized Pulp Paper Containing Aldehyde Groups | |
| Akihiro Azetsu, Hirotaka Koga, Lu-Yang Yuan, Takuya Kitaoka | 3706-3717 |
| Using Bark as a Heat Insulation Material | |
| Günther Kain, Marius Catalin Barbu, Stefan Hinterreiter, Klaus Richter, Alexander Petutschnigg | 3718-3731 |
| Biogas Production from Chinese Herb-extraction Residues: Influence of Biomass Composition on Methane Yield | |
| Ming Wang, Wenzhe Li, Shuang Liu, Dan Liu, Lili Yin, Hu Yuan | 3732-3740 |
| The Development of Stresses during the Shaping of the Surface of Aspen Wood and Their Impact on the Quality of the Surface | |
| Milan Gaff, Miroslav Gašparík | 3741-3752 |
| Characterization of Laccase-Treated Kenaf Fibre Reinforced Recycled Polypropylene Composites | |
| Muhammad R. Islam, Mohammad D. H. Beg, Arun Gupta | 3753-3770 |
| Amphiphilic Spruce Galactoglucomannan Derivatives Based on Naturally-Occurring Fatty Acids | |
| Daniel Dax, Patrik Eklund, Jarl Hemming, Jawad Sarfraz, Peter Backman, Chunlin Xu, Stefan Willför | 3771-3790 |
| Studying the Effect of Size of Bagasse and Nanoclay Particles on Mechanical Properties and Morphology of Bagasse Flour/Recycled Polyethylene Composites | |
| Amir Hooman Hemmasi, Ismail Ghasemi, Behzad Bazyar, Ahmad Samariha | 3791-3801 |
| Biological Pretreatment under Non-sterile Conditions for Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Corn Stover | |
| Lili Song, Hongbo Yu, Fuying Ma, Xiaoyu Zhang | 3802-3816 |
| Physicochemical and Structural Characterization of Hemicelluloses Isolated by Different Alcohols from Rice Straw | |
| Xiao-Ni Nie, Jing Liu, Diao She, Run-Cang Sun, Feng Xu | 3817-3832 |
| Mechanical and Thermal Properties of Polyurethane Films from Peroxy-acid Wheat Straw Lignin | |
| Zhimin Wang, Xiaohui Yang, Yonghong Zhou, Chengguo Liu | 3833-3843 |
| Optimization of Multi-enzyme Production by Fungi Isolated from Palm Kernel Expeller using Response Surface Methodology | |
| Wei Li Chen, Juan Boo Liang, Mohammed Fasaleh Jahromi, Yin Wan Ho, Norhani Abdullah | 3844-3857 |
| Effect of Biological Pretreatment with White-rot Fungus Trametes hirsuta C7784 on Lignin Structure in Carex meyeriana Kunth | |
| Jian-Zhen Mao, Xun Zhang, Ming-Fei Li, Feng Xu | 3869-3883 |
| Analysis of Interactions between Colloidal Wood Pitch and Various Mineral Particles by Flow Cytometry | |
| Anders Strand, Hanna Lindqvist, Lari Vähäsalo, Markus Blomquist, Anna Sundberg | 3884-3900 |
| Preparation and Application of Maleic Anhydride-Acylated Chitosan for Wet Strength Improvement of Paper | |
| Zicheng Chen, Hui Zhang, Zhanqian Song, Xueren Qian | 3901-3911 |
| Improvement of Ethanol Fermentation from Oligosaccharides in Spent Sulfite Liquor with Pichia stipitis by Combined Calcium Oxide and Ion Exchange Resin Treatments | |
| Keishi Tanifuji, Shiho Takahashi, Kevin Shiell, Sarwar M. Jahan, Yonghao Ni, Hiroshi Ohi | 3912-3923 |
| Study of Chemical Modification by Impregnation of Fresh Poplar Log and by Hot-Press Drying Process | |
| Heyu Chen, Qian Lang, Hao Zhang, Guofeng Wu, Xue Zheng, Junwen Pu | 3924-3933 |
| Upgrading of Bio-oil in Supercritical Ethanol: Using Furfural and Acetic Acid as Model Compounds | |
| Wen Chen, Zhongyang Luo, Yi Yang, Guoxiang Li, Jixiang Zhang, Qi Dang | 3934-3952 |
| Hyperproduction of Manganese Peroxidase through Chemical Mutagenesis of Trametes versicolor IBL-04 and Optimization of Process Parameters | |
| Muhammad Ramzan, Muhammad Asgher, Munir A. Sheikh, Haq Nawaz Bhatti | 3953-3966 |
| An Optimal Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Densification (THM) Process for Densifying Balsam Fir Wood | |
| Ling Li, Meng Gong, Naxin Yuan, Dagang Li | 3967-3981 |
| Analyzing Process Related, In-Plane Mechanical Variation of High Density Fiber Boards (HDF) Across the Feed Direction | |
| Jörn Rathke, Martin Riegler, Martin Weigl, Ulrich Müller, Gerhard Sinn | 3982-3993 |
| Microwave Irradiation Pyrolysis of Rice Straw in Ionic Liquid ([Emim]Br) | |
| Shaoling Cheng, Zhimin Zhang, Dongming Zhang, Yu Deng | 3994-4003 |
| Complex Formation of PEO and Lignin in Prehydrolysis Liquor and its Enhancing Effect on Lignin Removal | |
| Gang Liu, Haiqiang Shi, Qingwei Ping, Jinghui Zhou, Jian Zhang, Na Li, Meihong Niu, Pedram Fatehi, Huining Xiao, Yonghao Ni | 4004-4015 |
| Fermentable Sugars from Lupinus rotundiflorus by Cumulative Pretreatments Using UV Light, Freezing, and Boiling in Alkaline Medium, Followed by Enzymatic Hydrolysis | |
| J. Jesús Vargas-Radillo, Mario A. Ruiz-López, Ramón Rodríguez-Macías, Lucía Barrientos-Ramírez, Ricardo Manríquez-González, Fernando Navarro-Arzate, Eduardo Salcedo-Pérez, Fernando A. López-Dellamary Toral | 4016-4028 |
| Influence of Press Pressure on the Properties of Parallel Strand Lumber Glued with Urea Formaldehyde Adhesive | |
| Ramazan Kurt, Kağan Aslan, Vedat Çavuş | 4029-4037 |
| The Optical Appearance of Wood Related to Nanoscale Surface Roughness | |
| Markus Hauptmann, Ulrich Müller, Michael Obersriebnig, Wolfgang Gindl-Altmutter, Adrian Beck, Christian Hansmann | 4038-4045 |
| Oxidized Fiber from Dissolved Air Flotation Rejects and its Influences on Paper Properties | |
| Yanghong Wang, Xianliang Song | 4046-4055 |
| Changes in Content of Furfurals and Phenols in Self-Bonded Laminated Boards | |
| Carmen Cristescu, Olov Karlsson | 4056-4071 |
| Optimization of Fermentation Conditions for Laccase Production by Recombinant Pichia pastoris GS115-LCCA Using Response Surface Methodology and Its Application to Dye Decolorization | |
| Qi Li, Jingcong Xie, Linguo Zhao, Qiuxia Xue, Jianjun Pei | 4072-4087 |
| Effects of Physical Treatments on the Hydrophobicity of Kenaf Whole Stem Paper Surface Using Stearic Acid | |
| Hazwani Husna Abdullah, Ainun Zuriyati Mohamed Asa'ari, Nurul Izzati Mohd Zawawi, Luqman Chuah Abdullah, Sarani Zakaria | 4088-4100 |
| Acoustic Testing and Sorting of Chinese Poplar Logs for Structural LVL Products | |
| Zhi-ru Zhou, Mao-Cheng Zhao, Zheng Wang, Brad Jianhe Wang, Xun Guan | 4101-4116 |
| Brightness Reduction of Mechanical Pulp in the Wet End of a Paper Machine: The Effect of Different Ions in the Circulation Water | |
| Pekka Unto Antero Varhimo, Jonas Konn, Marcus Karl-Johan Lillandt, Jouni Tapio Paltakari | 4117-4133 |
| Effects of Wollastonite Nanofibers on Biological Durability of Poplar Wood (Populus nigra) against Trametes versicolor | |
| Ali Karimi, Hamid Reza Taghiyari, Akram Fattahi, Samaneh Karimi, Ghanbar Ebrahimi, Asghar Tarmian | 4134-4141 |
Review Articles (Peer Reviewed)
| Understanding of Formaldehyde Emissions from Solid Wood: An Overview | |
| Mohamed Zidan Mohamed Salem, Martin Böhm |
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