Editorial: Lignin: Nature’s versatile polymer as a potent chemical platform for 21st century challenges, TAPPI Journal January 2019

The rise in the global human population and con-current spike in industrialization continue to lead to increased consumption of fossil fuels—an event with unfortunate and inevitable accompanying environmental burdens. Lignocellulosic biomass, a naturally abundant, ubiquitous, and renewable resource, has long been touted to sustainably replace fossil fuels as a materials and energy feedstock. However, its major constituent—cellulose—lies locked within an amorphous polymeric glue known as lignin whose principal function is to accommodate voids in the plant/woody cell wall. Lignin is a large portion of the secondary cell wall that displays a highly heterogeneous and amorphous molecular character endowing it with the dubious distinction of being virtually irrelevant for high-value applications.

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