Author's sharing
We are very honored to receive the Springer Nature: China New Development Awards for Biofuels and Biorefineries, “Production of Materials from Sustainable Biomass Resources,” Series Editor: Zhen Fang and Editors: Zhen Fang, Richard Lee Smith Jr and Xiao-Fei Tian. This is Volume 9 in the series and presently we have completely 10 volumes with Volume 11 in progress: Biofuels and Biorefineries Springer Nature Series.
In this volume 9, it summarizes the characteristics and properties of biomass-derived catalysts and metal-free functionalized carbocatalysts and shows comparisons to catalysts from other carbon sources and materials. Of particular importance is the use of biocarbon in the steel industry to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. In sum, future developments show the advantages of using biological techniques to replace fossil fuel feedstocks.
We would like to heartily acknowledge both the many dedicated authors and reviewers, who like ourselves, take great pleasure in developing or helping to develop, scientific works that have clear and lasting value.
We are grateful to the many Springer-Nature production staff who have provided us with carefully crafted proofs, valuable suggestions and polish that have made each volumes brightly shine that have lead to Biofuels and Biorefineries becoming one of the top-tier downloaded Series.
