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List of works by Charles M Cai

A Multifunctional Cosolvent Pair Reveals Molecular Principles of Biomass Deconstruction

scientific article published on 31 July 2019

Adding tetrahydrofuran to dilute acid pretreatment provides new insights into substrate changes that greatly enhance biomass deconstruction by Clostridium thermocellum and fungal enzymes

scientific article published on 30 November 2017

Biomass augmentation through thermochemical pretreatments greatly enhances digestion of switchgrass by

scientific article published on 04 August 2018

CELF significantly reduces milling requirements and improves soaking effectiveness for maximum sugar recovery of Alamo switchgrass over dilute sulfuric acid pretreatment

scientific article published on 10 July 2019

Characterization of fractional cuts of co-solvent enhanced lignocellulosic fractionation lignin isolated by sequential precipitation

scientific article published on 27 September 2018

Co-solvent pretreatment reduces costly enzyme requirements for high sugar and ethanol yields from lignocellulosic biomass

scientific article published on 11 February 2015

Deconstruction of biomass enabled by local demixing of cosolvents at cellulose and lignin surfaces

scientific article published on 07 July 2020

Hybrid Catalytic Biorefining of Hardwood Biomass to Methylated Furans and Depolymerized Technical Lignin

scientific article published in 2018

Local Phase Separation of Co-solvents Enhances Pretreatment of Biomass for Bioenergy Applications.

scientific article published on 2 August 2016

Multiple levers for overcoming the recalcitrance of lignocellulosic biomass

scientific article published on 17 January 2019

Overcoming factors limiting high-solids fermentation of lignocellulosic biomass to ethanol

scientific article published on 16 October 2017

THF co-solvent pretreatment prevents lignin redeposition from interfering with enzymes yielding prolonged cellulase activity

scientific article published on 09 March 2021