Dear Colleagues,

The need to temper increasing energy consumption with a reduction in its influence on the environment has spurred enormous growth in energy generation capacity and diverse energy sources. Among the various potential sources is the use of biomass, which is an environmentally attractive alternative for fossil fuel and provides numerous opportunities to generate highly valuable products as well as sustainable fuels. Among various routes, catalysis plays a crucial role in the conversion of the wide abundant biomass or biomass waste into value-added chemicals and sustainable energy. The use of catalysis for the valorization of biomass into fuels, platform chemicals, and other value-added products are very promising.  Over the last few decades, it has reached fast progress from industry and research scholars.

This Special Issue invites contributions in the following areas:

• The recent progress in the catalytic conversion of real biomass waste or biomass-derived monomers or platform chemicals to value-added chemicals and biofuels with different catalysts (homogeneous and heterogeneous)
• The use of catalysis for the valorization of biomass chains with different routes (e.g., homogeneous and/or heterogeneous catalysis, photocatalysis, electrocatalysis),
• Studies related to catalytic reaction engineering, economy, and green processes or green chemical engineering are also encouraged.

Prof. Dr. Kai Yan
Guest Editor

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• homogeneous catalysis
• heterogeneous catalysis
• algal biomass
• valorization
• lignocellulose
• reactor engineering
• biofuels
• value-added chemicals
• green routes