Biomass Conversion with Carbon Catalysts

Tuesday, June 16, 2015: 1:30 PM-3:10 PM
Ballroom A (Lawrence Convention Center)
Friederike C. Jentoft, University of Massachusetts, USA and John N. Kuhn, University of South Florida, USA.
1:30 PM
Synergistic Effect Between Defect Sites and Functional Groups in the Hydrolysis of Cellulose Using Activated Carbon
Guo Shiou Foo and Carsten Sievers, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.
1:50 PM
Improvement of Sulfonated Carbon Catalyst Hydrothermal Stability Guided By Advanced Solid State NMR
Robert Johnson1, Jason Anderson1, Klaus Schmidt-Rohr2 and Brent H. Shanks1, (1)Iowa State University, USA, (2)Brandeis University, USA.
2:10 PM
Catalytic Hydrolysis Using Weak-Acid Sites on Modified Carbon for Glucose Production from Cellulose
Anh To, Alexandre Charmot, Po-Wen Chung and Alexander Katz, University of California, Berkeley, USA.
2:30 PM
Selective Base-Catalyzed Isomerization of Glucose to Fructose
Jack Carraher1,2, Chelsea Fleitman1 and Jean-Philippe Tessonnier1,2, (1)Iowa State University, USA, (2)NSF-ERC Center for Biorenewable Chemicals (CBiRC), USA.
2:50 PM
Mechanochemical Synthesis of Oxygenated Carbon Catalyst for Efficient Cellulose Hydrolysis
Abhijit Shrotri, Hirokazu Kobayashi and Atsushi Fukuoka, Hokkaido University, Japan.
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