Thousands of glucose molecules can be linked together to form the complex carbohydrate cellulose. Cellulose is a very tough molecule that is used to build the cell wall of plant cells. Plant cells ...

A SCOBY biofilm atop kombucha l i g h t p o e t/Shutterstock If youve ever made kombucha, you will be familiar with the term ...

For the past 30 years, Tajima has been harnessing fermentation, during which some bacteria metabolize sugar to produce cellulose nanofibres that are much longer and more useful. “It’s very ...

Expensive enzymes were needed to first break down the cellulose enzymatically into sugar so that it could finally be utilized ...

If you've ever made kombucha, you will be familiar with the term SCOBY—a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast. It's ...

Cellulose is an important structural material for plants, and it is made up of many repeating sugar units. These repeating sugar units can be broken down by various processes into the component ...

cellulose hydrolysis hydrogenation to saccharides and sugar alcohols, like glucose, sorbitol, mannose, etc.; (ii) selective hydrogenolysis leads to the cleavage of the corresponding glucose C-C and ...

It is a carbohydrate, (C6H10O5)n, isomeric with starch, and is convertible into starches and sugars by the action of heat and acids. When pure, it is a white amorphous mass. See Starch, Granulose, ...

Sucrose, or table sugar, is one example. It consists of a glucose molecule joined to a fructose molecule. ⋙ Polysaccharides have three or more monosaccharides joined together. Cellulose, for example, ...