Bert F. Sels

Research interests

Publications

• Guidelines for performing lignin-first biorefining

  Energy & Environmental Science · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1039/d0ee02870c

• A sustainable wood biorefinery for low–carbon footprint chemicals production

  Science · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aau1567

• Advances in porous and nanoscale catalysts for viable biomass conversion

  Chemical Society Reviews · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1039/c8cs00452h

• Reductive catalytic fractionation: state of the art of the lignin-first biorefinery

  Current Opinion in Biotechnology · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copbio.2018.12.005

• Functionalised heterogeneous catalysts for sustainable biomass valorisation

  Chemical Society Reviews · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1039/c8cs00410b

• Chemicals from lignin: an interplay of lignocellulose fractionation, depolymerisation, and upgrading

  Chemical Society Reviews · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1039/c7cs00566k

• Lignin-first biomass fractionation: the advent of active stabilisation strategies

  Energy & Environmental Science · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1039/c7ee01298e

• The active site of low-temperature methane hydroxylation in iron-containing zeolites

  Nature · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature19059

• Shape-selective zeolite catalysis for bioplastics production

  Science · 2015 · 10.1126/science.aaa7169

• Reductive lignocellulose fractionation into soluble lignin-derived phenolic monomers and dimers and processable carbohydrate pulps

  Energy & Environmental Science · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1039/c5ee00204d

• Tuning the lignin oil OH-content with Ru and Pd catalysts during lignin hydrogenolysis on birch wood

  Chemical Communications · 2015 · 10.1039/c5cc04025f

• Review of old chemistry and new catalytic advances in the on-purpose synthesis of butadiene

  Chemical Society Reviews · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1039/c4cs00105b

• Lactic acid as a platform chemical in the biobased economy: the role of chemocatalysis

  Energy & Environmental Science · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1039/c3ee00069a

• Fast and Selective Sugar Conversion to Alkyl Lactate and Lactic Acid with Bifunctional Carbon–Silica Catalysts

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2012 · 10.1021/ja301678w

• Interfacial synthesis of hollow metal–organic framework capsules demonstrating selective permeability

  Nature Chemistry · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1026

• Recent Advances in the Catalytic Conversion of Cellulose

  ChemCatChem · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1002/cctc.201000302

• Direct Patterning of Oriented Metal–Organic Framework Crystals via Control over Crystallization Kinetics in Clear Precursor Solutions

  Advanced Materials · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.200903867

• Conversion of carbon dioxide to value-added chemicals in atmospheric pressure dielectric barrier discharges

  Plasma Sources Science and Technology · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1088/0963-0252/19/3/034015

• A [Cu 2 O] 2+ core in Cu-ZSM-5, the active site in the oxidation of methane to methanol

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0910461106

• Patterned Growth of Metal-Organic Framework Coatings by Electrochemical Synthesis

  Chemistry of Materials · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1021/cm900069f

• Spatially resolved observation of crystal-face-dependent catalysis by single turnover counting

  Nature · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature04502

• Selective Oxidation of Methane by the Bis(μ-oxo)dicopper Core Stabilized on ZSM-5 and Mordenite Zeolites

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1021/ja047158u

• Ordered Mesoporous and Microporous Molecular Sieves Functionalized with Transition Metal Complexes as Catalysts for Selective Organic Transformations

  Chemical Reviews · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1021/cr010368u

• Hydrotalcite-like anionic clays in catalytic organic reactions

  Catalysis Reviews · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1081/cr-120001809

• Fine Chemicals through Heterogeneous Catalysis

  Journal · 2000

• Layered double hydroxides exchanged with tungstate as biomimetic catalysts for mild oxidative bromination

  Nature · 1999 · https://doi.org/10.1038/23674

• Sulfonic acid functionalised ordered mesoporous materials as catalysts for condensation and esterification reactions

  Chemical Communications · 1998 · https://doi.org/10.1039/a707462j

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