Elisabetta Aracri Contributions

Scientific contributions

Peer reviewed publications

E. Aracri, T. Tzanov, T. Vidal. (2013). “Use of cyclic voltammetry as an effective tool for selecting efficient enhancers for oxidative bioprocesses: Importance of pH”. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 52, 1455-1463.
M. Ardanuy, J. Claramunt, R. Arévalo, F. Parés, E. Aracri, T. Vidal. (2012). “Nanofibrillated cellulose (NFC) as a potential reinforcement for high performance cement mortar composites”. Bioresources. 7, 3883-3894.
A.G. Barneto, E. Aracri, G. Andreu, T. Vidal. (2012). “Investigating the structure-effect relationship of various natural phenols used as laccase mediators in the biobleaching of kenaf and sisal pulps”. Bioresource Technology. 112, 327-335.
E. Aracri, A.G. Barneto, T. Vidal. (2012). “Comparative study of the effects induced by different laccase-based systems on sisal cellulose fibres”. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 51 (10), 3895-3902.
E. Aracri, T. Vidal. (2012). “Enhancing the effectiveness of a laccase-TEMPO treatment has a biorefining effect on sisal cellulose fibres”. Cellulose. 19 (3), 867-877.
E. Aracri, C. Valls, T. Vidal. (2012). “Paper strength improvement by oxidative modification of sisal cellulose fibres with laccase-TEMPO system: Influence of the process variables”. Carbohydrate Polymers. 88 (3), 830-837.
E. Aracri, M. B. Roncero, T. Vidal. (2011). “Studying the effects of laccase-catalysed grafting of ferulic acid on sisal pulp fibers”. Bioresource Technology. 102 (16), 7555-7560
E. Aracri, T. Vidal, A.J. Ragauskas. (2011). “Wet strength development in sisal cellulose fibers by effect of a laccase-Tempo treatment”. Carbohydrate Polymers. 84 (4), 1384-1390
E. Aracri, T. Vidal (2011). “Xylanase- and laccase-aided hexenuronic acids and lignin removal from specialty sisal fibres”. Carbohydrate Polymers 83 (3), 1355-1362.
E. Aracri, A. Fillat , J. F. Colom, A. Gutiérrez, J. C. del Río, Á. T. Martínez, T. Vidal (2010). “Enzymatic grafting of simple phenols on flax and sisal pulp fibres using laccases”. Bioresource Technology 101 (21), 8211–8216
E. Aracri, J. F. Colom and T. Vidal. (2009). “Application of laccase-natural mediator systems to sisal pulp: An effective approach to biobleaching or functionalizing pulp fibres?”. Bioresource Technology 100 (23), 5911-5916.

Communications to meetings

Meeting: XV Reunión de la red temática española. Biotecnología de materiales lignocelulósicos: retos moleculares, enzimáticos y químicos para su aplicación industrial y medioambiental. Uso de la voltametría cíclica para seleccionar mediadores/potenciadores de la lacasa eficaces en procesos oxidativos, sesión C: Enzimas. Biología molecular. E. Aracri, T. Tzanov, T. Vidal. Oral presentation. Salamanca (Spain). 13-14 Nov. 2012
Congress: Italic 6, Science and technology of biomasses: advances and challenges. Laccase-TEMPO oxidation of sisal pulp for improving paper strength properties: influence of the operating conditions, pp. 281-285. E. Aracri, C. Valls, T. Vidal. Oral presentation. Viterbo (Italy). 5-8 Sept. 2011
Reunión: XIV Reunión de la red temática española. Biotecnología de materiales lignocelulósicos: retos moleculares, enzimáticos y químicos para su aplicación industrial y medioambiental. Desarrollo de resistencia en húmedo en pasta de sisal por efecto oxidativo del sistema lacasa-TEMPO, sesión III: enzimas oxidativas. E. Aracri, T. Vidal, A.J. Ragauskas. Oral presentation. Madrid (Spain). 5-6 Sept. 2011
Congress: Microbiología industrial y biotecnología microbiana. Biobleaching of sisal pulp involving xylanase and laccase-mediator systems, p.129. E. Aracri, T. Vidal. Poster presentation. Alcalá de Henares (Spain). 17-19 Nov. 2010
Congress: XXI TECNICELPA Conference and Exhibition/ VI CIADICYP 2010. Use of xylanase and laccase-mediator systems for bleaching sisal pulp – comparing the effectiveness of a natural and a synthetic mediator, p. 379. E. Aracri, T. Vidal. Poster presentation. Lisboa (Portugal). 12-15 Oct. 2010
Congress: Oxidative enzymes as a sustainable industrial biocatalysts. Laccases in paper manufacture: grafting vs. removing aromatic compounds?, pp. 140-144. Oral presentation. T. Vidal. E. Aracri, E. M. Cadena, A. Fillat, U. Fillat, J. Garcia, C. Valls, M. B. Roncero, J. F. Colom. Santiago de Compostela (Spain). 14-15 Sept. 2010
Congreso: Oxidative enzymes as a sustainable industrial biocatalysts. Oxidation of sisal pulp by laccase-TEMPO system as an efficient method for wet strength development, pp. 235-240. Poster presentation. E. Aracri, T. Vidal. A. J. Ragauskas. Santiago de Compostela (Spain). 14-15 Sept. 2010
Meeting: XIII Reunión de la red temática española. Biotecnología de materiales lignocelulósicos: retos moleculares, enzimáticos y químicos para su aplicación industrial y medioambiental. Use of xylanase and laccase-mediator systems for hexenuronic acids and lignin removal from sisal pulp, p. 17. E. Aracri, T. Vidal. Oral presentation. Valladolid (Spain). 12-13 July 2010
Congress: 1st Symposium on biotechnology applied to lignocelluloses. Xylanase and laccase – aided lignin removal from specialty sisal fibres, p.52. E. Aracri, J. F. Colom, T. Vidal. Oral presentation. Reims (France). 28 Mar - 1 Apr. 2010
Congreso: 6th International conference textile and polymer biotechnology. Laccase-induced coupling of natural phenols onto sisal fibres, p. 244. E. Aracri, T. Vidal. Oral presentation. Ghent (Belgium). 23-25 Sept. 2009
Congress: 15th International symposium on wood, fiber and pulping chemistry. Laccase-induced coupling of natural phenols onto sisal fibres, p. P-089-1-2. E. Aracri, T. Vidal. Poster presentation. Oslo (Norway). 15-18 June 2009
Congress: V Congreso iberoamericano de investigación de celulosa y papel. Modificación enzimática da pastas de lino y sisal con lacasa y mediadores naturales, p. 61-63. T. Vidal, E. Aracri, A. Fillat. Oral presentation. Guadalajara (Mexico). Congress: 4th European meeting on oxizymes. Laccase and natural mediators in biomodification of specialty pulps, p. 93. E. Aracri, A. Fillat and T. Vidal. Poster presentation. Helsinki (Finland). 20-23 Oct. 2008
Congress: International pulp bleaching conference. Exploring the potential of laccase-mediator systems for bleaching sisal pulp, p. 251. E. Aracri, J. F. Colom and T. Vidal. Poster presentation. Quebec City (Canada). 2-5 June 2008
Meeting: XI Reunión de la red temática española. Biotecnología de materiales lignocelulósicos: retos moleculares, enzimáticos y químicos para su aplicación industrial y medioambiental. Biomodificación de pastas especiales con lacasa y mediadores naturales, sesión I: Madera y Pasta de papel. E. Aracri, A. Fillat and T. Vidal. Oral presentation. Sitges (Spain). 29-30 May 2008
Congress: 10th International congress on biotechnology in the pulp and paper industry meeting. Laccase strategies to enhance linerboard and paperboard critical properties, pp. 85-86. D. Bussini, G. Elegir, E. Aracri, C. Grassi, A. Fuhrmann, S. Panula-Ontto. Poster presentation. (USA). 16-18 Oct. 2007
Congress: Italic 4, Science & technology of biomasses: Advances and challenges. Laccase-based strategies to alleviate mechanical failure of lignocellulose material under moisture conditions, pp.159-162. G. Elegir, E. Aracri, D. Bussini, M. Orlandi, L. Zoia. Oral presentation. Monte Porzio Catone - Roma (Italy). 8-10 May 2007