Every year, gigatons of biomass from agricultural and forestry residues are discarded worldwide. This waste is rich in lignin ? an energy-dense but difficult-to-process molecule that ...

New biomass power plants continue to come online in Japan, requiring an ever-greater quantity of imported fuel. The government’s feed-in tariff scheme, which has been tweaked but not canceled, ...

Scientists have come up with a lithium ion capacitor using electrodes produced from wood particles that are discarded as waste in sawmills. This biomass is both readily available and sustainable, ...