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Development of Sustainable Carbohydrate-Based Solvents by Acetal Functionalisation of Biomass

Organic solvents are ubiquitous in industrial and domestic applications from the production of pharmaceuticals to household consumer products. The negative impact of most traditional solvents, especially aprotic types, on the environment, health, and safet ...

EPFL2024

cgNA+: A sequence-dependent coarse-grain model of double-stranded nucleic acids

Rahul Sharma

DNA mechanics plays a crucial role in many biological processes, including nucleosome positioning and protein-DNA interactions. It is believed that nature employs epigenetic modifications in DNA to further regulate gene expression. Moreover, double-strande ...

EPFL2023

Tunable biocomposite films fabricated using cellulose nanocrystals and additives for food packaging

Wenjing Sun

Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) are considered a prospective packaging material to partially replace petroleumbased plastics attributed to their renewability, sustainability, biodegradability, and desirable attributes including transparency, oxygen, and oil ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2023

Development of remote C-H bond functionalization of redox-active alcohol derivatives and oxidative transformations under photoredox catalysis

Alexandre Julien Florent Leclair

The development of radical-based remote C(sp3)-H functionalizations of redox-active alcohol derivatives, oxidative cycloaddition and rearrangement transformations under visible light photocatalysis constitute the basis of this thesis. The first chapter des ...

EPFL2021

Production, characterization and upgrading of biomass-derived acetal-stabilized carbohydrates

Ydna Marie Questell-Santiago

Biomass is an attractive source of renewable carbon-based fuels and chemicals. Multiple research efforts are centered around integrated biorefineries, where all fractions of biomass are converted to fuels or chemical products. These efforts are focused aro ...

EPFL2019

Catalytic Upgrading of Biomass-Derived Carboxylic Acids to Fuels and Chemicals

Jher Hau Yeap

Our reliance on fossil fuels, which is unsustainable due to dwindling reserves, has led to various environmental issues. Lignocellulosic biomass could serve as a renewable source of carbon and energy for the production of fuels and chemicals. While several ...

EPFL2019

Bioconversion of pentose sugars to value added chemicals and fuels: Recent trends, challenges and possibilities

Edgard Gnansounou

Most of the crop plants contain about 30% of hemicelluloses comprising D-xylose and D-arabinose. One of the major limitation for the use of pentose sugars is that high purity grade D-xylose and D-arabinose are yet to be produced as commodity chemicals. Res ...

Elsevier2018

Complex event recognition through wearable sensors

Jean-Eudes Marie Ranvier

Complex events are instrumental in understanding advanced behaviours and properties of a system. They can represent more meaningful events as compared to simple events. In this thesis we propose to use wearable sensor signals to detect complex events. Thes ...

EPFL2017

Molecular Imaging of Biopolymers Enabled by Electrospray-Ion Beam Deposition

Sabine Abb

Biomolecular functional complexes often serve as inspiration for the development of artificial molecular nanostructures. The functionality of the biomolecular structures is based on complex and adaptable binding motifs that have evolved over billions of ye ...

EPFL2017

A mild biomass pretreatment using gamma-valerolactone for concentrated sugar production

Jeremy Luterbacher, Li Shuai, Ydna Marie Questell-Santiago

Here we report that gamma-valerolactone (GVL), a biomass-derived solvent, can be used to facilitate the mild pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass. An 80% GVL, 20% water solvent system was used to pretreat hardwood at the mild temperature of 120 degrees ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2016

Environmental impact assessment of lignocellulosic lactic acid production: Integrated with existing sugar mills

Pavel Vaskan

Lactic acid (LA) is considered for the diversification and value addition to sugar industry in South Africa, through a bioconversion of sugarcane bagasse and leaves. A bioconversion process was modeled in Aspen Plus (R) V8.6 and its environmental impacts w ...

Institution of Chemical Engineers2016

Carbon Density Is an Indicator of Mass Accommodation Coefficient of Water on Organic-Coated Water Surface

Satoshi Takahama, Gözde Bitlislioglu

The condensational growth of a water droplet follows water vapor accommodation and is described by the mass accommodation coefficient, a. To determine a for droplets coated by straight chain and branched alcohols, we perform molecular dynamics simulations ...

American Chemical Society2016

Palladium-Catalyzed Vicinal Amino Alcohols Synthesis from Allyl Amines by In Situ Tether Formation and Carboetherification

Jérôme Waser, Ugo Jonathan Orcel

Vicinal amino alcohols are important structural motifs of bioactive compounds. Reported herein is an efficient method for their synthesis based on the palladium-catalyzed oxy-alkynylation, oxy-arylation, or oxy-vinylation of allylic amines. High regio- and ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Dissecting the Effects of Concentrated Carbohydrate Solutions on Protein Diffusion, Hydration, and Internal Dynamics

Matteo Dal Peraro, Luciano Andres Abriata, Francesco Piazza, Enrico Spiga

We present herein a thorough description of the effects of high glucose concentrations on the diffusion, hydration and internal dynamics of ubiquitin, as predicted from extensive molecular dynamics simulations on several systems described at fully atomisti ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

Kinetic models in industrial biotechnology - Improving cell factory performance

Vassily Hatzimanikatis

An increasing number of industrial bioprocesses capitalize on living cells by using them as cell factories that convert sugars into chemicals. These processes range from the production of bulk chemicals in yeasts and bacteria to the synthesis of therapeuti ...

Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science2014

COUP-TFII Controls Mouse Pancreatic beta-Cell Mass through GLP-1-beta-Catenin Signaling Pathways

Anne Grapin-Botton

Background: The control of the functional pancreatic beta-cell mass serves the key homeostatic function of releasing the right amount of insulin to keep blood sugar in the normal range. It is not fully understood though how beta-cell mass is determined. ...

2012

Bioethanol production from oil palm empty fruit bunches : a comparison among different pretreatment options

Simone Chiesa

Face to the increasing demand for energy, the declining availability of fossil fuels and the periodical tensions in the geopolitical context of oil-producing countries have raised serious concerns in the governments worldwide as well as in the public opini ...

EPFL2012

The spirocyclopropyl moiety as a methyl surrogate in the structure of L-fucosidase and L-rhamnosidase inhibitors

Pierre Vogel

Nitrogen-in-the-ring analogues of L-fucose and L-rhamnose were prepared, which feature a spirocyclopropyl moiety in place of the methyl group of the natural sugar. The synthetic route involved a titanium-mediated aminocyclopropanation of a glycononitrile a ...

2009

Cold denaturation of yeast frataxin offers the clue to understand the effect of alcohols on protein stability

Paolo De Los Rios

Although alcohols are well-known to be protein denaturants when present at high concentrations, their effect on proteins at low concentrations is much less well characterized. In this paper, we present a study of the effects of alcohols on protein stabilit ...

American Chemical Society2008

One-Step Conversion of Cellobiose to C6-Alcohols Using a Ruthenium Nanocluster Catalyst

Paul Joseph Dyson, Cheng Zhao, Ning Yan, Huizhen Liu

The one-step conversion of cellulose to C6-alcs. via green and energy efficient approaches has, as far as we are aware, not been reported. Such a process presents a considerable challenge, the two key problems being (1) finding a suitable solvent that diss ...

2006