“…Lignocellulosic biomass is composed of cellulose (30-50%), hemicellulose (15-35%), and lignin (10-30%) (Dadi et al, 2006;Pronyk and Mazza, 2016) in addition to a signi cant amount of silicon (Ndazi et al, 2007). Cellulose is the most abundant biopolymer on Earth, it is composed of glucose monomers connected by β-1,4-glycosidics bonds (Chen et al, 2017;Dadi et al, 2006;Ibrahim et al, 2015;Meenatchi et al, 2017;Nemestóthy et al, 2017), and it has interesting characteristics such as biodegradability, biocompatibility, hydrophilicity, thermal and chemical stability, and renewability (Jiang et al, 2011;Wang et al, 2015). Hemicellulose is a complex polysaccharide, composed predominantly of xylose (pentoses sugars) and other sugars (hexoses).…”