This book is a collection of studies on state-of-art techniques developed for producing value-added N-containing chemicals and N-doped carbon materials from renewable sources via sustainable technologies. Aiming to improve conversion effectiveness and develop innovative techniques for new value-added N-containing products, topics in the text address recent advances, assess and highlight promising methods or technological strategies, and outline direct conversion routes for conversion of renewable resources to N-containing chemicals and materials. World-renowned authorities, experts, and professionals have contributed individual chapters in selected areas to cover the overall topic comprehensively. In addition to researchers and professionals in the field, educators teaching university courses on biomass transformation, biomass energy, energy materials, heterocyclic chemistry, resource materials and sustainable development and green chemistry will find the text informative with new international perspectives.
Zhen Fang is a Professor and Leader of the Biomass Group at Nanjing Agricultural University. He is the inventor of the "fast hydrolysis" process, the elected fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. Professor Fang specializes in thermal/biochemical conversion of biomass, nanocatalyst synthesis and their applications, pretreatment of biomass for biorefineries, and supercritical fluid processes. He holds Ph.D.s from China Agricultural University and McGill University. Professor Fang is Associate Editor of the international journals, Biotechnology for Biofuels and Journal of Supercritical Fluids (2018-2020). He has more than 20 years of research experience in the field of renewable energy and green technologies at top universities and institutes around the globe, including one year in Spain (University of Zaragoza), three years in Japan (Biomass Technology Research Center, AIST; Tohoku University), and more than eight years in Canada (McGill) in renewable energy and greentechnologies. Richard L. Smith, Jr. is a Professor in the Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University, Japan. He has a strong background in physical properties and separations and holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology (USA). His research focuses on developing green chemical processes, especially those that use water and carbon dioxide as the solvents in their supercritical state. He is an expert on physical property measurements and separation techniques with ionic liquids, and has published more than 300 scientific papers, patents and reports in the field of chemical engineering. Professor Smith is the Asia regional editor for the Journal of Supercritical Fluids and has served on the editorial boards of major international journals.
Lujiang Xu is an Associate Professor in the Biomass Group at Nanjing Agricultural University, College of Engineering. He holds a Ph.D. in Renewable and Clean Energy from the Department of Chemistry of University of Science and Technology of China and a B.S. in Light Chemical Engineering from Nanjing Forestry University. His research focuses on the selective thermo-chemical conversion of biomass and derived compounds into value-added chemicals and liquid fuels.
Zhen Fang 是南京農業大學的教授及生物質研究小組的負責人。他是「快速水解」過程的發明者，也是加拿大工程院的當選院士。Fang 教授專注於生物質的熱/生化轉換、納米催化劑的合成及其應用、生物質的預處理以供生物煉製廠使用，以及超臨界流體過程。他擁有中國農業大學和麥吉爾大學的博士學位。Fang 教授曾擔任國際期刊《Biotechnology for Biofuels》和《Journal of Supercritical Fluids》的副編輯（2018-2020）。他在可再生能源和綠色技術領域擁有超過20年的研究經驗，曾在全球頂尖大學和研究機構工作，包括在西班牙（薩拉戈薩大學）一年、日本（生物質技術研究中心、AIST；東北大學）三年，以及在加拿大（麥吉爾大學）超過八年的可再生能源和綠色技術研究。
Richard L. Smith, Jr. 是日本東北大學環境研究所的教授。他在物理性質和分離技術方面有著堅實的背景，並持有美國喬治亞理工學院的化學工程博士學位。他的研究專注於開發綠色化學過程，特別是那些在超臨界狀態下使用水和二氧化碳作為溶劑的過程。他是離子液體的物理性質測量和分離技術的專家，並在化學工程領域發表了超過300篇科學論文、專利和報告。Smith 教授是《Journal of Supercritical Fluids》的亞洲區域編輯，並曾在多個國際主要期刊的編輯委員會任職。
Lujiang Xu 是南京農業大學工程學院生物質研究小組的副教授。他擁有中國科學技術大學化學系的可再生與清潔能源博士學位，以及南京林業大學的輕化工學士學位。他的研究專注於生物質及其衍生化合物的選擇性熱化學轉換，將其轉化為增值化學品和液體燃料。
