The demand for vanillin vastly outstrips the natural resources of this flavoring agent. A chemical process is thus used to produce the required large quantities of vanillin from petroleum, which is ...

Huge amounts of technical or Kraft lignin are formed during pulp production. This lignin is difficult to process and so is usually just incinerated for heat production. A team of researchers, ...

Stable and eco-friendly organic solar cells can be made from lignin, one of nature's most abundant organic compounds. It has now been demonstrated by researchers at Linköping University and the Royal ...