Table of Contents

Conversion of Biomass into Sugars;
Aqueous-phase Reforming of Sugar Derivatives: Challenges and Opportunities;
Catalytic Hydrogenation of Sugars;
Advances in Sugar-based Polymers: Xylan and its Derivatives for Surface Modification of Pulp Fibres;
Recent Advances in the Synthesis of Sugar-based Surfactants;
Oligosaccharides for Pharmaceutical Applications;
Non-fuel Applications of Sugars in Brazil.

About the Author

Dmitry Murzin is Chair of Chemical Technology at Åbo Akademi University. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals in the catalysis and chemical engineering fields, and is an elected member of the Societas Scientiarum Fennica and Svenska Tekniska Vetenskapsakademien i Finland science academies.

Olga Simakova works at Georgia Institute of Technology, where her research focus is on the development of biomass conversion into biofuels via low-temperature catalytic pyrolysis.