Novel Chemocatalysts and/or Biocatalysts for Sustainable Production of Value-Added Chemicals and Biofuels
A special issue of Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344). This special issue belongs to the section "Catalysis for Sustainable Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2024) | Viewed by 1518
Special Issue Editor
Interests: biocatalysis; bioenergy
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Dear Colleagues,
To date, a series of sustainable technologies have been developed and applied to manufacture biofuels and chemicals in an environmentally friendly way. Due to its versatile reactivity, chemocatalysis is the key to achieving the sustainable production of such substances. Biocatalysis do offer some advantages over chemocatalysis, such as a high selectivity and activity under mild performance conditions. Recently, a new trend has emerged in which chemocatalysts are combined with a biocatalyst to achieve mutual promotion and synergistic catalysis.
This Special Issue of Catalysts aims to cover new research and trends in the development and application of novel chemocatalysts and/or biocatalysts for the sustainable production of value-added chemicals and biofuels in a benign reaction system. The editors welcome contributions of high-quality research papers, reviews, and short communications focusing on this topic. This topic encompasses, but is not limited to, the following:
- Application of novel homogeneous and heterogeneous chemocatalysts;
- Biosynthesis by novel biocatalysts;
- Chemocatalysis and/or biocatalysis in a benign reaction system;
- Chemoenzymatic synthesis of value-added chemicals and biofuels;
- Valorization of biomass and food waste via catalysis.
Prof. Dr. Yu-Cai He
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- homogeneous and heterogeneous chemocatalysts
- biocatalysts
- value-added chemicals
- biofuels
- biomass
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