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Record W4413054193 · doi:10.1021/jacs.5c01871

Enhancing Hydrogen Production from Bioenergy Crops via Photoreforming

2025· article· en· W4413054193 on OpenAlexaff
Meshal Aljohani, Lan Lan, Helen Daly, Pedro Verdía, Min Hu, Suhaib Nisar, Shengzhe Ding, Jason P. Hallett, Neil Watkins, W. J. Macalpine, Rebecca Rowe, Agnieszka Brandt‐Talbot, Gregg R. Sanford, John Ralph, Shawn D. Mansfield, Carmine D’Agostino, Xiaolei Fan, Christopher Hardacre

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of the American Chemical Society · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicBioenergy crop production and management
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
FundersEngineering and Physical Sciences Research CouncilGreat Lakes Bioenergy Research CenterHorizon 2020 Framework ProgrammeOffice of ScienceU.S. Department of EnergyUK Catalysis HubKing Abdulaziz City for Science and TechnologyBiological and Environmental ResearchEuropean Commission
KeywordsMiscanthusBiomass (ecology)HemicelluloseBioenergyLigninChemistryCelluloseLignocellulosic biomassWillowRaw materialAgronomyBiofuelPanicum virgatumEnergy cropPulp and paper industryBotanyBiotechnologyOrganic chemistryBiology

Abstract

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Photoreforming perennial bioenergy crops (willow, Miscanthus, and poplar) has the potential to produce H 2 with reduced environmental impacts. To understand the compositional effects of the biomass on the average rate of H 2 production over the first 30 min of reaction ( r H 2 ), the r H 2 values of model biomass component (i.e., cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin) mixtures were compared with those from the raw biomass. The higher cellulose or hemicellulose content in multicomponent mixtures resulted in higher r H 2, whereas lignin reduced the hydrogen production rate. However, with raw biomass, the ratio of biomass components alone did not determine the r H 2 via photoreforming, with rates of hydrogen production for different varieties of willow ranging between 1.9 μmol h –1 and 12.3 μmol h –1, 11.8 μmol h –1 for a poplar, and 6.8 μmol h –1 for a miscanthus biomass. In addition, comparable r H 2 values of raw poplar and its extracted cellulose via an IonoSolv treatment indicated the possibility of using raw biomass materials without delignification for generating H 2 via photoreforming. Importantly, r H 2 was positively correlated with the interaction between water and the biomass, as assessed by NMR relaxation via an examination of the T 1 / T 2 ratio. A stronger water-biomass interaction resulted in a higher r H 2 . Genetic modification of biomass has been suggested as a putative way to improve the r H 2 of biomass with an enhanced interaction with water. This research enhances the understanding of factors influencing H 2 production from lignocellulosic biomass by photoreforming and supports the breeding and management of perennial biomass crops to maximize H 2 yields while minimizing land area requirements.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.001
Threshold uncertainty score0.002

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.007
GPT teacher head0.212
Teacher spread0.205 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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