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Dehua Liu is affiliated with Tsinghua University in China and has a significant body of research primarily in the fields of Engineering and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Surgery, Inorganic Chemistry, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The main research topics covered by Liu's publications include:

  • Biofuel production and bioconversion
  • Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization
  • Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
  • Catalysis for Biomass Conversion
  • Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
  • Electrochemical sensors and biosensors
  • Biodiesel Production and Applications

Liu's frequent publication venues consist of:

  • Chemical Engineering Journal
  • ACS Synthetic Biology
  • Metabolic Engineering
  • ACS Omega
  • Processes

Frequent coauthors associated with Liu include:

  • Lingmei Dai
  • Wei Du
  • Xuebing Zhao
  • Zhen Chen
  • Xuecong Cen

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Liu are:

  • "Lignocellulosic biomass as sustainable feedstock and materials for power generation and energy storage", 2020, Journal of Energy Chemistry
  • "Conversion of lignocellulose to biofuels and chemicals via sugar platform: An updated review on chemistry and mechanisms of acid hydrolysis of lignocellulose", 2021, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • "An overview to process design, simulation and sustainability evaluation of biodiesel production", 2021, Biotechnology for Biofuels
  • "Oxidative pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass for enzymatic hydrolysis: Progress and challenges", 2022, Bioresource Technology
  • "Systems metabolic engineering of Vibrio natriegens for the production of 1,3-propanediol", 2021, Metabolic Engineering

Best Publications

  • Organosolv pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass for enzymatic hydrolysis

    Xuebing Zhao;Keke Cheng;Dehua Liu

  • Perspectives of microbial oils for biodiesel production.

    Qiang Li;Wei Du;Dehua Liu

  • Biomass recalcitrance. Part I: the chemical compositions and physical structures affecting the enzymatic hydrolysis of lignocellulose

    Xuebing Zhao;Lihua Zhang;Dehua Liu

  • Comparative study on lipase-catalyzed transformation of soybean oil for biodiesel production with different acyl acceptors

    Wei Du;Yuanyuan Xu;Dehua Liu;Jing Zeng

  • Production of 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) from 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF): recent progress focusing on the chemical-catalytic routes

    Muhammad Sajid;Muhammad Sajid;Xuebing Zhao;Dehua Liu

  • Lipase-catalyzed transesterification of rapeseed oils for biodiesel production with a novel organic solvent as the reaction medium

    Lilin Li;Wei Du;Dehua Liu;Li Wang

  • Lipase-catalyzed process for biodiesel production: Enzyme immobilization, process simulation and optimization

    Xuebing Zhao;Feng Qi;Chongli Yuan;Wei Du

  • Lignocellulosic biomass as sustainable feedstock and materials for power generation and energy storage

    Fangqian Wang;Denghao Ouyang;Ziyuan Zhou;Samuel J. Page

  • Perspectives for biotechnological production of biodiesel and impacts

    Wei Du;Wei Li;Ting Sun;Xin Chen

  • Conversion of lignocellulose to biofuels and chemicals via sugar platform: An updated review on chemistry and mechanisms of acid hydrolysis of lignocellulose

    Ziyuan Zhou;Dehua Liu;Xuebing Zhao

  • Biomass recalcitrance. Part II: Fundamentals of different pre-treatments to increase the enzymatic digestibility of lignocellulose

    Xuebing Zhao;Lihua Zhang;Dehua Liu

  • Progress & prospect of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) for enzyme immobilization (enzyme/MOFs)

    Yingli Hu;Lingmei Dai;Dehua Liu;Wei Du

  • A novel enzymatic route for biodiesel production from renewable oils in a solvent-free medium.

    Yuanyuan Xu;Wei Du;Dehua Liu;Jing Zeng

  • Microbial conversion of biodiesel byproduct glycerol to triacylglycerols by oleaginous yeast Rhodosporidium toruloides and the individual effect of some impurities on lipid production

    Jingyang Xu;Xuebing Zhao;Wencong Wang;Wei Du

  • Organosolv fractionating pre-treatment of lignocellulosic biomass for efficient enzymatic saccharification: chemistry, kinetics, and substrate structures

    Xuebing Zhao;Siming Li;Ruchun Wu;Dehua Liu

  • Effects of some inhibitors on the growth and lipid accumulation of oleaginous yeast Rhodosporidium toruloides and preparation of biodiesel by enzymatic transesterification of the lipid

    Xuebing Zhao;Feng Peng;Wei Du;Canming Liu

  • Peracetic acid pretreatment of sugarcane bagasse for enzymatic hydrolysis: a continued work

    Xue-Bing Zhao;Lei Wang;De-Hua Liu

  • Preparation of peracetic acid from hydrogen peroxide Part I: Kinetics for peracetic acid synthesis and hydrolysis

    Xuebing Zhao;Ting Zhang;Yujie Zhou;Dehua Liu

  • Lipase-catalyzed biodiesel production from soybean oil deodorizer distillate with absorbent present in tert-butanol system

    Li Wang;Wei Du;Dehua Liu;Lilin Li

  • Study on acyl migration in immobilized lipozyme TL-catalyzed transesterification of soybean oil for biodiesel production

    Wei Du;Yuan-Yuan Xu;De-Hua Liu;Ze-Bo Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Jian-Jiang Zhong
Jian-Jiang Zhong Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Yi Zhao
Yi Zhao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Arvind Varma
Arvind Varma Purdue University West Lafayette
Hongzhang Chen
Hongzhang Chen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Doraiswami Ramkrishna
Doraiswami Ramkrishna Purdue University West Lafayette
Min-Hua Zong
Min-Hua Zong South China University of Technology
Yongping Yang
Yongping Yang North China Electric Power University
Yuan Chen
Yuan Chen University of Sydney
Masaaki Wachi
Masaaki Wachi Tokyo Institute of Technology
Zhiguo Su
Zhiguo Su Chinese Academy of Sciences

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