Peer-review Journal Papers
1. Biomass recalcitrance explicated at molecular level by the whole cell wall solution-state 2D-NMR spectroscopy, Kun Cheng, Markus Pauly (in preparation)
2. The Cell Wall Deconstruction Mechanism of Three Environmentally Benign Pretreatments for Woody Biomass Elucidated by Solid- and Solution-state NMR Spectroscopy, Kun Cheng (submitted to Polymer Degradation and Stability )
3. Role of RWA proteins in cell wall acetylation, Yuzuki Manabe, Yves Verhertbruggen, Sascha Gille, Jesper Harholt, Sun-Li Chong, Prashant Pawar, Ewa Mellerowicz, Maija Tenkanen, Kun Cheng, Markus Pauly, Henrik Vibe Scheller (submitted to Plant Physiology)
4. Two-step delignification of miscanthus to enhance enzymatic hydrolysis: aqueous ammonia followed by sodium hydroxide and oxidants, Liu, Zhongguo; Padmanabhan, Sasisanker; Cheng, Kun; xie, hongxue; Gokhale, Amit; Afzal, Waheed; Na, Hui; Pauly, Markus; Bell, Alex; Prausnitz, John (submitted to Energy & Fuels)
5. The identification of two xyloglucan arabinofuranosyl transferases from tomato demonstrates the targeted modification of a plant cell wall polysaccharide, Alex Schultink, Kun Cheng, Markus Pauly (Plant Physiology, 2013)
6. Solution-state 2D NMR spectroscopy of plant cell walls enabled by a DMSO-d6/[Emim]OAc solvent, Kun Cheng, Hagit Sorek, Herbert Zimmermann, David E. Wemmer, Markus Pauly (Analytical Chemistry, 2013)
7. Ionizing Radiation and a Wood–Based Biorefinery, Mark S Driscoll, Arthur J Stipanovic, Kun Cheng, Vincent A Barber, Mellony Manning, Jennifer L Smith, Smith Sundar (Radiation Physics and Chemistry, 2013)
8. Reducing the Recalcitrance of Woody Biomass by Electron Beams, Biodelignification and Hot-water Extraction. Kun Cheng, Vincent Barber, Mark Driscoll, Arthur Stipanovic, (Jounal of Bioprocess Engineering and Biorefinery, 2013)
9. Reduction in xylan O-acetylation results in increased recalcitrance to saccharification as indicated by the Arabidopsis mutant tbl29, Guangyan Xiong, Kun Cheng, Markus Pauly (Molecular Plant, 2013)
10. Aqueous-ammonia Delignification of Miscanthus Followed by Enzymatic Hydrolysis to Sugars, Zhongguo Liu, Sasisanker Padmanabhan, Kun Cheng, Philippe Schwytera, Markus Pauly, Alexis T. Bella, John M. Prausnitza, (Bioresource Technology, 2012)
11. XAX1 from Glycosyltransferase Family 61 Mediates Xylosyltransfer to Rice Xylan, Dawn Chiniquy, Vaishali Sharma, Alex Schultink, Edward E.K. Baidoo, Carsten Rautengarten, Kun Cheng, Andrew Carroll, Peter Ulvskov, Jesper Harholt, Jay D. Keasling, Markus Pauly, Henrik V. Scheller, and Pamela C. Ronald, (PNAS 2012)
12. A Modulated TGA Approach to the Kinetic of Lignocellulosic Biomass Pyrolysis /Combustion. Kun Cheng, William T. Winter, Arthur J, Stipanovic, (Polymer Degradation and Stability, 2012)
13. O-Acetylation of Arabidopsis Hemicellulose Xyloglucan Requires AXY4 or AXY4L, Proteins with a TBL and DUF231 Domain, Sascha Gille, Amacio de Souza, Guangyan Xiong, Monique Benz, Kun Cheng , Alex Schultink, IB Reca, Markus Pauly, (The Plant Cell, 2011)
14. Deep Sequencing of Voodoo Lily (Amorphophallus konjac): An approach to identify relevant genes involved in the synthesis of the hemicellulose glucomannan. Sascha Gille, KunCheng, Curtis Wilkerson and Markus Pauly, (Planta,2011)
15. Electron Beam Irradiation of Cellulose, Driscoll, Mark; Stipanovic, Arthur; Winter, William; Cheng, Kun; Manning, Mellony; Spiese, Jessica; Galloway, Richard A.; Cleland,Marshall R., (Radiation Physics and Chemistry, 2009).
16. A Strategy for developing Novel structural Polyurethanes and Functional materials. Controlled / Living Free-Radical Polymerization of Acryloyl Azide under 60Co γ-Rayirradiation. Daoben Hua, Kun Cheng, Wei Bai, Ruke Bai, Weiqi Lu, Caiyuan Pan, (Macromolecules, 2005)
17. Rapid living free-radical polymerization of methyl acrylate under 60Co γ– ray irradiation at room temperature. Daoben Hua, Kun Cheng, Ruke Bai, Weiqi Lu and Caiyuan Pan, (Polym Int. 2004)
Selected Presentations
1. “Understanding pretreatment effects on lignocellulosic materials using high-resolution quantitative 2D NMR spectroscopy” Kun Cheng, Markus Pauly, 2013 June 18-20, 6th International Workshop “Tailor made Fuels from Biomass”, Aachen, Germany,
2. “Understanding the molecular basis of lignocellulosic ultrastructure using high-resolution 2D-NMR spectroscopy” Kun Cheng, Markus Pauly, 2012 October, International Conference of Biomass-Energy Technology, Nanjing, China
3. “Quantitative characterization of plant cell walls with time-zero extrapolated 2D HSQC NMR spectroscopy” Kun Cheng, Markus Pauly, 2012 April, 53rd Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Conference, Miami, FL
4. “Reducing the Recalcitrance of Woody Biomass by Electron Beams, Biodelignification and Hot-Water Extraction”, 2010 March, ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA
5. “An Investigation of Irradiated Wood Dissolution in DMSO/TBAF through NMR & GPC” 2010 March, ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA
6. “Preparation and Characterization of Cellulose Nanocrystals from Acer saccharum pulps” Kun Cheng, William T. Winter, 237th ACS National Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, UnitedStates, March 22-26, (2009)
7. “Thoroughly Understanding Biomass Thermal Decomposition Kinetics” 2009 May, Eastman Chemical Graduate Student Award Competition, SUNY-ESF, Syracuse, NY
8. “Advanced Principal Component Analysis of CP/MAS 13C NMR Spectra of Cellulose Nanocrystals” 2008 May, Eastman Chemical Graduate Student Award Competition, SUNY-ESF, Syracuse, NY