Nanomorphologic changes of sugarcane lignocellulosic matter

• Grant number: 10/05523-3
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Young Investigators Grants
• Start date: August 01, 2010
• End date: May 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - Condensed Matter Physics
• Principal Investigator: Carlos Eduardo Driemeier
• Grantee: Carlos Eduardo Driemeier
• Host Institution: Centro Nacional de Pesquisa em Energia e Materiais (CNPEM). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• City of the host institution: Campinas
• Associated researchers: Adriane Maria Ferreira Milagres ; Charles Dayan Farias de Jesus ; Edgardo Olivares Gómez ; George Jackson de Moraes Rocha ; Harry Westfahl Junior ; Maria Teresa Borges Pimenta Barbosa ; Mateus Borba Cardoso ; Walter de Carvalho

Abstract

Sugarcane lignocellulosic matter is represented by bagasse, with its fiber and pith fractions, and trash. This matter is chemically composed by cellulose (41-47%), hemicelluloses (25-26%) and lignin (14-22%). The arrangement of these chemical components in space, in nanometric scale, is here called nanomorphology. The nanomorphological properties addressed in this project are related to two kinds of nanometric structures present in the materials: cellulose fibrils, which are predominantly crystalline, and pores filled with water. This project proposes the characterization of these structures by several techniques. In addition, it aims at understanding the evolution of these structures as conventional processes (related to the enzymatic route of lignocellulosic material conversion to ethanol) are applied. The analytical techniques proposed to characterize the materials nanomorphology are: x-ray diffraction, small-angle x-ray scattering, thermoporometry, water sorption and desorption analysis, solute exclusion, and gas adsorption. This is a promising research area mainly because lignocellulosic matter is an abundant and renewable source of energy and materials. However, in Brazil there is scarcity of researchers working with the nanomorphology of lignocellulosic matter, particularly regarding physical techniques of characterization. (AU)

Scientific publications

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DRIEMEIER, CARLOS; MENDES, FERNANDA M.; SANTUCCI, BEATRIZ S.; PIMENTA, MARIA T. B.. Cellulose co-crystallization and related phenomena occurring in hydrothermal treatment of sugarcane bagasse. Cellulose, v. 22, n. 4, p. 2183-2195, AUG 2015. (10/08691-4, 10/05523-3)

DRIEMEIER, CARLOS; MENDES, FERNANDA M.; OLIVEIRA, MARCELO M.. Dynamic vapor sorption and thermoporometry to probe water in celluloses. Cellulose, v. 19, n. 4, p. 1051-1063, AUG 2012. (10/05523-3)

BRAGATTO, JULIANO; SEGATO, FERNANDO; COTA, JUNIO; MELLO, DANILO B.; OLIVEIRA, MARCELO M.; BUCKERIDGE, MARCOS S.; SQUINA, FABIO M.; DRIEMEIER, CARLOS. Insights on How the Activity of an Endoglucanase Is Affected by Physical Properties of Insoluble Celluloses. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, v. 116, n. 21, p. 6128-6136, MAY 31 2012. (10/05523-3)

DRIEMEIER, CARLOS; BRAGATTO, JULIANO. Crystallite Width Determines Monolayer Hydration across a Wide Spectrum of Celluloses Isolated from Plants. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, v. 117, n. 1, p. 415-421, JAN 10 2013. (10/05523-3)

OLIVEIRA, RAFAEL P.; DRIEMEIER, CARLOS. CRAFS: a model to analyze two-dimensional X-ray diffraction patterns of plant cellulose. JOURNAL OF APPLIED CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, v. 46, p. 15-pg., 2013-08-01. (10/05523-3)

DRIEMEIER, CARLOS; CALLIGARIS, GUILHERME A.. Theoretical and experimental developments for accurate determination of crystallinity of cellulose I materials. JOURNAL OF APPLIED CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, v. 44, p. 9-pg., 2011-02-01. (10/05523-3)

DRIEMEIER, CARLOS; CALLIGARIS, GUILHERME A.. Theoretical and experimental developments for accurate determination of crystallinity of cellulose I materials. JOURNAL OF APPLIED CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, v. 44, n. 1, p. 184-192, FEB 2011. (10/05523-3)

OLIVEIRA, RAFAEL P.; DRIEMEIER, CARLOS. CRAFS: a model to analyze two-dimensional X-ray diffraction patterns of plant cellulose. JOURNAL OF APPLIED CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, v. 46, n. 4, p. 1196-1210, AUG 2013. (10/05523-3)

DRIEMEIER, CARLOS. Two-dimensional Rietveld analysis of celluloses from higher plants. Cellulose, v. 21, n. 2, SI, p. 1065-1073, APR 2014. (10/05523-3)

DRIEMEIER, CARLOS. Two-dimensional Rietveld analysis of celluloses from higher plants. Cellulose, v. 21, n. 2, p. 9-pg., 2014-04-01. (10/05523-3)

DRIEMEIER, CARLOS; PIMENTA, MARIA T. B.; ROCHA, GEORGE J. M.; OLIVEIRA, MARCELO M.; MELLO, DANILO B.; MAZIERO, PRISCILA; GONCALVES, ADILSON R.. Evolution of cellulose crystals during prehydrolysis and soda delignification of sugarcane lignocellulose. Cellulose, v. 18, n. 6, p. 1509-1519, DEC 2011. (10/08691-4, 10/05523-3)

MAZIERO, PRISCILA; JONG, JENNIFER; MENDES, FERNANDA M.; GONCALVES, ADILSON R.; EDER, MICHAELA; DRIEMEIER, CARLOS. Tissue-Specific Cell Wall Hydration in Sugarcane Stalks. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, v. 61, n. 24, p. 5841-5847, JUN 19 2013. (09/00874-5, 10/05523-3)

DRIEMEIER, CARLOS; OLIVEIRA, MARCELO M.; MENDES, FERNANDA M.; GOMEZ, EDGARDO O.. Characterization of sugarcane bagasse powders. Powder Technology, v. 214, n. 1, p. 111-116, NOV 25 2011. (10/05523-3)

DRIEMEIER, CARLOS; SANTOS, WANDERLEY D.; BUCKERIDGE, MARCOS S.. Cellulose crystals in fibrovascular bundles of sugarcane culms: orientation, size, distortion, and variability. Cellulose, v. 19, n. 5, p. 1507-1515, OCT 2012. (10/05523-3)

DRIEMEIER, CARLOS; OLIVEIRA, MARCELO M.; CURVELO, ANTONIO A. S.. Lignin contributions to the nanoscale porosity of raw and treated lignocelluloses as observed by calorimetric thermoporometry. INDUSTRIAL CROPS AND PRODUCTS, v. 82, p. 114-117, APR 2016. (10/05523-3)