Journal
BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 205, Issue -, Pages 159-165Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2016.01.029
Keywords
Different plant scales; Mechanical fragmentation; Corncob; Microstructure features; Enzymatic hydrolysis
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31271611]
- Special Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education [20130008130004]
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In this work, corncob samples at different scales, i.e., plant scale (>1 mm), tissue scale (500-100 mu m) and cellular scale (50-30 mu m), were produced to investigate the impact and mechanisms of different mechanical fragmentations on microstructure features and enzymatic hydrolysis. The results showed that the microstructure features and enzymatic hydrolysis of corncob samples, either at a plant scale or tissue scale, did not change significantly. Conversely, corncob samples at a cellular scale exhibited some special properties, i.e., an increase in the special surface area with the inner mesopores and macropores exposed to the surface; breakage of crystalline cellulose and linkages in polysaccharides; and a higher proportion of polysaccharides on the surface, which significantly enhanced enzymatic digestibility resulting in a 98.3% conversion yield of cellulose to glucose which is the highest conversion ever reported. In conclusion, mechanical fragmentation at the cellular scale is an effective pretreatment for corncob. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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