With the development of global industrialization and concerns on the shrinking fossil energy reserve and the environmental impacts associated with using fossil fuels, the world has been looking for alternative green materials and energy for the future. Biomass-based materials are known to have much lower greenhouse gas emissions than other materials from nonrenewable resources, such as petroleum. In recent years, research on biomass-based materials has become one of the most important components of renewable materials and sustainable energy systems due to its abundance and renewability. Biomass has attracted great interests in research and technology deployment for materials and fuels. To promote communication between researchers of biomass-based materials, we invite investigators to contribute original research articles as well as review articles that will stimulate the continuing efforts to understand the mechanisms, conversion, production, and management related to biomass-based materials and technologies for energy.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Conversion of biomass to hydrocarbons for liquid fuels
• Conversion of biomass to solid fuels
• Energy efficiency of biomass-based building materials
• Development and characterization of novel biochemicals and bioproducts from biomass
• Biomass feedstock management
• Environmental and economic analyses of biomass-based products
• Development of biomass-based nanocomposites and hybrid materials