Project Grant 2027125

The National Science Foundation awarded a $130,000 Project Grant to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York (SUNY ESF) to support collaborative research titled "LOW-ENERGY TANDEM PROCESS FOR FRACTIONATION AND REVERSIBLE PRESERVATION OF LIGNOCELLULOSE USING MULTIFUNCTIONAL ALDEHYDE SULFONIC ACIDS." The award was made under the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop new techniques for fractionating and preserving lignocellulose using multifunctional aldehyde sulfonic acids. The research is intended to advance methods for more efficiently extracting and stabilizing components from lignocellulose, the most abundant organic material on Earth, for applications such as biofuels and bioproducts. The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York will carry out the research from April 2021 through March 2024 in Syracuse, New York with the $130,000 in NSF funding.