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Dan Xie

Engineering · Purdue University West Lafayette

Established · publishing since 1993

Publications

71

Citations

2,723

Est. group size

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

34

Publishing since 1993

Research summary
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Dan Xie's work focuses on converting plant biomass, such as switchgrass and sugarcane bagasse, into biofuels and useful chemicals. This involves engineering microorganisms (like yeast and bacteria) to ferment plant sugars into ethanol and other products, as well as studying the chemistry of plant cell walls and lignin. The research also touches on related materials science topics, such as cellulose-based hydrogels for detecting heavy metals.

Biofuel and bioethanol production from plant biomassMicrobial and metabolic engineering for fermentationLignocellulosic biomass pretreatment and chemistryCellulose-based materialsPlant genetics related to bioenergy crops

Publication output was steady at 3-5 papers per year from 2017-2021, dropped to zero in 2023-2024, then resumed with increased activity in 2025-2026.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 2.6/year recently
2017: 3 publications172018: 5 publications182019: 5 publications192020: 5 publications202021: 4 publications212022: 3 publications2223242025: 6 publications6252026: 4 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)×4
  • Journal of Enzymes×3
  • Figshare×3
  • ChemSusChem×2
  • GCB Bioenergy×2
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This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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