Pan Lab of Bioenergy and Bioproducts

Dr. Haishun Du (Postdoc) won the Young Investigator Award from the Division of Forest and Plant Bioproducts in the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) to recognize his accomplishments in nanocellulose research. The award will be presented at the 2024 AIChE Annual Meeting, Oct. 27 – 31, in San Diego, CA. A dedicated session with 7 invited speakers has been organized in honor of Dr. Du at the meeting.

Meijun successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis on August 11, 2023. Congratulations! The title of her thesis is “Oligosaccharides from simple sugars and lignocellulose: chemical synthesis, separation, structural analysis, and prebiotic activity”. Wish Meijun a successful and bright career.

Ruolin successfully defended her Master thesis on August 7, 2023. Congratulations! The title of her thesis is “Fabrication of Lignocellulosic Biomass Film Directly from Poplar Wood”. Wish Ruolin a successful and bright career.

Li published his lignin adhesive paper in Nature. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06507-5  This is another milestone work after his Science paper in 2016. 10.1126/science.aaf7810

• Qi Dong, Aditya Lele, Xinpeng Zhao, Sichao Cheng, Yueqing Wang, Miao Guo, Mingjin Cui, Alexandra Brozena, Tangyuan Li, Shuke Li, Ioannis Kevrekidis, Jianguo Mei, Xuejun Pan, Dongxia Liu, Yiguang Ju, Ying Lin, Lin Xu, Aileen Qi, Liangbing Hu. Catalyst-free and Far-from-equilibrium Depolymerization of Plastics via Electrified Spatiotemporal Heating. Nature, 2023, 616, 488–494. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05845-8
• Yu Ding, Zhenqian Pang, Kai Lan, Yuan Yao, Guido Panzarasa, Lin Xu, Marco Lo Ricco, Douglas R. Rammer, Y. Zhu, Ming Hu, Xuejun Pan, Teng Li, Ingo Burgert, Liangbing Hu. Emerging engineered wood for building applications. Chemical Reviews, 2023,123 (5), 1843–1888. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemrev.2c00450.
• Cheng Cai, Chaofeng Zhang, Ning Li, Huifang Liu, Hongming Lou, Xuejun Pan; J.Y. Zhu, Feng Wang. Changing the role of lignin in enzymatic hydrolysis for a sustainable and efficient sugar platform. 2023, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2023, 183, 113445. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2023.113445
• Yueqing Wang, Mingjie Chen, Yang Yang, John Ralph, Xuejun Pan. Efficient O-demethylation of lignin-derived aromatic compounds under moderate conditions. RSC Advances, 2023, 13, 5925–5932. https://doi.org/10.1039/D3RA00245D
• Meijun Zeng, Ning Li, Theresa Astmann, Jee-Hwan Oh, Jan-Peter van Pijkeren, and Xuejun Pan. Chemical synthesis of gluco-oligosaccharides with mixed glycosidic linkages as potential prebiotics via dehydration condensation of glucose in concentrated sulfuric acid. Food Research International, 2023, 165, 112436. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodres.2022.112436
• Meijun Zeng, Jan-Peter van Pijkeren, and Xuejun Pan. Prebiotic gluco-oligosaccharides: synthesis, purification, structural characterization, and structure-function studies. Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, 2023, 22, 2611–2651. https://doi.org/10.1111/1541-4337.13156

Yueqing successfully defended her Master thesis on December 19, 2022. Congratulations! The title of her thesis is “Efficient Demethylation of Lignin-derived Aromatic Compounds under Moderate Conditions”. Wish Yueqing a successful and bright career.