Xiaohui Ju

Washington State University Tri-Cities

Projects

A New Approach to a Deep Understanding of Biomass Recalcitrance

Lead Institution

Washington State University Tri-Cities

Principal Investigator

Xiao Zhang

Project type

Exploratory Research

A deep understanding of 'biomass recalcitrance' is a key to the development of cost effective pretreatment and discovery of highly efficient cell wall polysaccharide degrading enzyme…

A systems approach to design of reference biomass substrates for discovering highly efficient cell wall polysaccharide degrading enzymes to overcome biomass recalcitrance

Lead Institution

Washington State University Tri-Cities

Principal Investigator

Xiao Zhang

Project type

Exploratory Research

There is little doubt that sugar will become the primary currency of the future bioeconomy. Lignocellulosic biomass has been regarded as the most promising and sustainable source for supplying non…

Investigating the interactions between linker and drug molecules and nanocrystalline surface along with cytotoxicity measurements

Lead Institution

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Theva Thevuthasan

Identifying and synthesizing a target specific and controlled release nanoparticle based drug delivery system (DDS) provides a great potential to overcome the barriers facing existing cancer therapy…