Publications de Jeremy Luterbacher

Glucuronoyl esterases improve cellulose hydrolysis by lignocellulose degrading enzymes and enhance lignin extraction

Glucuronoyl esterases (GEs) catalyze cleavage of ester linkages between lignin and hemicellulose. This study investigates the role of GEs in the conversion of lignocellulosic biomass in combination with a minimal set of monocomponent cellulases (endo-1,4-g ...

Elsevier BV2025

Encapsulated Co–Ni alloy boosts high-temperature CO2 electroreduction

Jeremy Luterbacher, Xile Hu, Wenhao Ren, Seongmin Jin

Electrochemical CO 2 reduction into chemicals and fuels holds great promise for renewable energy storage and carbon recycling 1–3 . Although high-temperature CO 2 electroreduction in solid oxide electrolysis cells is industrially relevant, current catalyst ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

Size‐Selective Functionalization of Sugars and Polyols Using Zeolites for Renewable Surfactant Production

Jeremy Luterbacher, Esther Amstad, Songlan Sun, Seongmin Jin

Diol functionalization with acetals in carbohydrates and polyols is ubiquitously used in protection chemistry and in the manufacture of several platform chemicals. However, the selective functionalization of molecules where multiple acetalization reactions ...

Wiley2025

Aldehyde-Stabilization Strategies for Building Biobased Consumer Products around Intact lignocellulosic Structures

Jeremy Luterbacher, Lorenz Perry Manker, Songlan Sun

Dwindling fossil resources and their associated environmental concerns have increased interest in biobased products. In particular, many approaches to convert lignocellulosic biomass into small-molecule building blocks are being explored via thermal, chemi ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2025

Connecting scales in reaction engineering

Jeremy Luterbacher, Sophia Haussener

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

Characterization of Biobased Polymers at the Gas-Solid Interface─Analysis of Surface and Bulk Properties during Artificial Degradation

Michel Rossi, Jeremy Luterbacher, Christian Ludwig, Tobias Borgmeyer

Accurately assessing the interfacial composition and reactivity of (bio)polymers under controlled but environmentally relevant conditions remains challenging. This study explores the evolution of surface functionalities of novel polyesters Poly(Butylene Xy ...

2025

Selective Production of Syringaldehyde and Vanillin from Acetal-Stabilized Lignin

Jeremy Luterbacher, Jean Thierry C Behaghel de Bueren, Wu Lan

Industrial lignin oxidation has been used for vanillin production but is largely uncontrolled, not fully understood mechanistically, and leads to low yield. Here, we have demonstrated high-efficiency vanillin and syringaldehyde production from lignin via g ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2025

Best practices for multi-fidelity Bayesian optimization in materials and molecular research

Jeremy Luterbacher, Philippe Schwaller

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

Operando Monitoring of Delignification Processes Using 2D 1H-13C HSQC NMR

Jeremy Luterbacher, Aurélien Bornet, Songlan Sun

American Chemical Society (ACS)2025

Low‐Power Tunable Micro‐Plasma Device for Efficient and Scalable CO2 Valorization

Jeremy Luterbacher, Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Guang-Yu Sun, Hongkeng Zhu

Valorizing CO2 into chemical building blocks via efficient electrified processes could significantly decrease carbon emissions. In this work, a device that allows generation of tunable micro‐plasma modes (arc, pulsed, pulsed arc) on a chip for efficient, l ...

Wiley2025

Additive-Enhanced PAX Polyesters for Industrial Processing and Increased Longevity

Jeremy Luterbacher, Lorenz Perry Manker, Maxime Alexandre Clément Hedou

American Chemical Society (ACS)2025

Method for preparing an acetal-protected sugar

Jeremy Luterbacher, Lorenz Perry Manker, Maxime Alexandre Clément Hedou

Method for preparing an acetal-protected sugar involving the step of reacting a diol group of a sugar selected from the group consisting of an aldopentose and an aldohexose with one or two compounds of formula (Ia) and/or (Ib) in the presence of a homogeno ...

2025

Xylose Acetals - a New Class of Sustainable Solvents and Their Application in Enzymatic Polycondensation

Jeremy Luterbacher

The use of organic solvents in academic research and industry applications is facing increasing regulatory pressure due to environmental and health concerns. Consequently, there is a growing demand for sustainable solvents, particularly in the enzymatic sy ...

2024

Synthesis of High-Surface-Area Alumina using Carbon Templating and Liquid Phase Atomic Layer Deposition

Jeremy Luterbacher, Farzaneh Talebkeikhah

Certain metal oxides exhibit unique phases and associated properties that can generally only be accessed via high temperature treatments. However, high temperature processes usually lead to surface reconstruction and pore collapse, which reduces the active ...

2024

A solution for 4-propylguaiacol hydrodeoxygenation without ring saturation

Jeremy Luterbacher

We investigate solvent effects in the hydrodeoxygenation of 4-propylguaiacol (4PG, 166 amu), a key lignin-derived monomer, over Ru/C catalyst by combined operando synchrotron photoelectron photoion coincidence (PEPICO) spectroscopy and molecular dynamics s ...

Nature Research2024

Carbon-carbon Bond Cleavage for a Lignin Refinery

Jeremy Luterbacher

Carbon-carbon bonds, ubiquitous in lignin, limit monomer yields from current depolymerization strategies, which mainly target C-O bonds. Selective cleavage of the inherently inert sigma-type C-C bonds without pre-functionalization remains challenging. Here ...

SPRINGERNATURE2024

Quantification of Native Lignin Structural Features with Gel-Phase 2D-HSQC0 Reveals Lignin Structural Changes During Extraction

Jeremy Luterbacher, Stefania Bertella

Our ability to study and valorize the lignin fraction of biomass is hampered by the fundamental and still unmet challenge of precisely quantifying native lignin's structural features. Here, we developed a rapid elevated-temperature H-1-C-13 Heteronuclear S ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2024

Biobased surfactant

Jeremy Luterbacher, Stefania Bertella, Anastasiia Komarova, Songlan Sun

The present invention relates to a compound of the general formula (I), and (II)wherein one of R11 and R12 is hydrogen and the other is -CH2-R70, and one of R13 and R14 is hydrogen and the other is -CH2-R71, or wherein one of R11 and R12 is hydrogen and th ...

2024

Method for preparing an at least partially acetal-protected sugar

Jeremy Luterbacher, Lorenz Perry Manker, Anastasiia Komarova, Songlan Sun

The present invention relates to a method for preparing an at least partially acetal-protected sugar involving the step of reacting a sugar or a sugar derivative selected from the group consisting of an aldopentose, an aldohexose, an aldopentoside and an a ...

2024

Machine learning-supported solvent design for lignin-first biorefineries and lignin upgrading

Jeremy Luterbacher

Solvent selection is a difficult task for lignin-first biorefineries and lignin upgrading as the solvent must satisfy multiple complex technical requirements, while remaining extremely stable to allow recycling. High lignin solubility is a common selection ...

2024