I. Thermal biomass conversion 1. Thermal conversion of biomass to bio-oils 2. Syngas production by biomass gasification 3. Thermal upgrading of lignin to aromatic compounds 4. Amination of biomass to nitrogen-containing compounds 5. Production and applications of bio-chars
II. Enzymatic biomass conversion 6. Enzymatic hydrolysis enhanced by biomass pretreatment 7. Updated technologies for sugar fermentation to bioethanol 8. Techno-economic analysis of butanol biosynthesis 9. Enzymatic production and purification of methane 10. Recent advances in biohydrogen production and process optimization 11. Enzymatic production of organic acids via anaerobic oxidation of biomass
III. Chemocatalytic biomass conversion 12. Solid acid-catalyzed hydrolysis of cellulose 13. Hydrodeoxygenation of biomass-derived pyrolytic oil 14. Hydrogenation of biofuranics with nanocatalysts 15. Direct conversion of cellulosic biomass to furanics 16. Oxidation of bio-based alcohols/carbonyls 17. Hydrodeoxygenation of lignin to hydrocarbons
IV. Biomass-derived materials 18. Cellulose-based biosurfactants 19. Carbonaceous materials from lignocellulosic biomass 20. Production and application of nitrogenous carbon adsorbents
V. Green techniques developed for biomass valorization 21. Photocatalysis of bio-derived lignin to simple aromatic molecules 22. Upgrading of CO2 to N-formamides with low-cost catalysts 23. Biomass valorization via process intensification 24. Chemo-enzymatic cascades for one-pot multi-step biomass conversion 25. Green solvent-mediated processing of biomass feedstocks 26. Effective bioproduct separation techniques and systems