Issue 8, 2012

Combination of ball-milling and non-thermal atmospheric plasma as physical treatments for the saccharification of microcrystalline cellulose

Abstract

Here we report that non-thermal atmospheric plasma (NTAP) can be used as a physical treatment for the extensive depolymerization of amorphous cellulose to low molecular weight cello-oligomers (DP = 36). Such NTAP treatment does not require addition of any solvent and catalyst, thus facilitating the recovery of cello-oligomers. Additionally, the NTAP treatment was found to be highly selective since degradation/oxidation of glucose units occurs to a rather small extent (purity of cello-oligomers >90%). These low molecular weight cello-oligomers recovered after NTAP treatment were then more prone to hydrolysis than native cellulose and were easily hydrolyzed to glucose over a cation exchange resin with an unprecedented yield of 58%.

Graphical abstract: Combination of ball-milling and non-thermal atmospheric plasma as physical treatments for the saccharification of microcrystalline cellulose

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
09 May 2012
Accepted
08 Jun 2012
First published
13 Jun 2012

Green Chem., 2012,14, 2212-2215

Combination of ball-milling and non-thermal atmospheric plasma as physical treatments for the saccharification of microcrystalline cellulose

M. Benoit, A. Rodrigues, K. De Oliveira Vigier, E. Fourré, J. Barrault, J. Tatibouët and F. Jérôme, Green Chem., 2012, 14, 2212 DOI: 10.1039/C2GC35710K

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