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Path Forward to the Viable Production of Lignin Derived Biopolymers by Dat T Tran* in Crimson Publishers: Peer Reviewed Material Science Journals

The growing concerns over climate change impacts have been driving the interest in the production of biomass derived polymers (e.g., polylactic acid) with applications in a range of sectors like building materials and packaging. Cellulose, first most abundantly available biopolymer in nature, has been used as a candidate feedstock to produce a range of biomass derived polymers. The high- quality polymer composites and functional polymeric materials can be synthesized using cellulose fibers, nanocellulose, and cellulose derivatives as fillers or matrices in bio composites materials, which is an efficient bio sustainable alternative to produce most petroleum-based polymers. However, the commercial production of cellulose derived biopolymers may face a strong competition from renewable fuel and chemical producers as these producers also use cellulose as a source of carbon to produce renewable fuels and chemicals in biorefineries.1 Lignin, the second most abundantly available biopolymer in nature, is currently underutilized in biorefineries by using it mostly to produce bioenergy [1]. The use of lignin to make high value-added biopolymers and cellulose/hemicellulose fraction of biomass (like wood chips) to fuels/chemicals can increase the commercial viability of biorefineries and eventually reduce the feedstock competition with the production of biopolymers (Figure 1); [1]. In this opinion, we discuss a path forward to make effective lignin derived biopolymers with various applications.

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2021 has been an eventful year to say the least. I’m currently sitting here at Toyota of Cedar Park to get my windshield replaced, of my new car I just bought last year. It’s like the drama keeps on going. Or, it’s like the drama is winding down. I’m not sure.

2021, you were dramatic.

From the capital insurrection to the inauguration and my first Covid vaccine in January and the health scare that came with it, to the homelessness due to the Winter Freeze that flooded my apartment and second Covid vaccine in February. To moving into another problem unit and putting in my first offer on a home in March. April came with an upturn to getting my offer letter accepted and the sudden change in energy to closing on my first home in May and moving for the second time in 3 months to my first new home in June. By July I was reeling in from the whirlwind of the past few months, trying to settle into my new home and life when car troubles came July and August.  Somewhere in August and September work relationships improved. To September hitting another wall to which I processed all the pain I’ve experienced in the last months and years and decided I was ready to get back out there. To September when I pushed the pedal forward and bought a car, started leaning into brand new friendships and began dating. To starting to open myself back up, to meeting Patrick. To October, November, December where the holidays and my dating took my life by storm. 

Now, today, January 10 of the new year, I am waiting on getting my windshield replaced of the brand new car I just purchased in September. The car that seemingly marked the turning point of my moving past the old and onto the new. It’s coincidental, no? Symbolic, no?  

I forgot to mention Patrick and I broke up a week ago, right into the new year, and again yesterday.

It’s like buying a new car was the turning point of moving on from my last major heartache with Ryan, and the gateway moment to beginning my new smaller relationship with Patrick. And replacing my windshield now is like the turning point of mending a smaller broken heart in my most recent breakup. The intensity of the heartbreaks are getting less. That’s a good thing right?

It’s weird timing how that works right? Relationships timed with the car? 2021, you kept me on my toes. It was a heart-felt year in every possible way, and I can’t look back on you fondly or unfondly. It is what it is, and now I am ready for the next. Come on 2022, you’re only just beginning.

Well Ready or Not…

Well, here we go ready or not? Really? Maybe I should come back to this post when I have taken the time to process what is happening. Presently my mind is clouded with a lot of very sorted vocabulary, maybe I should think through before I start writing.

I am trying to stay optimistic, reminding myself I am not the only one going through this. It is a global dilemma. This said, to get through…

WASHINGTON | GOP weighs decision on criminal justice bill amid Trump push

WASHINGTON  — Republican senators debated the path forward for an overhaul of the nation’s criminal sentencing laws Tuesday after a visit from Vice President Mike Pence, suggesting parts of the bill may need to be rewritten before Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will hold a vote.

Pence and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, visited Capitol Hill Tuesday to push for the…