About Making Lignin Great Again—Some Lessons From the Past

Lignin, the second most abundant biopolymer on the planet, serves land-plants as bonding agent in juvenile cell tissues and as stiffening (modulus-building) agent in mature cell walls. The chemical structure analysis of cell wall lignins from two partially delignified wood species representing betwe...

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Main Author: Wolfgang G. Glasser
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Chemistry
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fchem.2019.00565/full