Biomass: State of the Art and New Challenges

The era demands the exploitation of renewable biomass resources to substitute the petroleum-based fossil resources to foster the living environmental condition of the current and future generation. The biomass valorization has been a potent strategy to eradicate the dependency of the beings on nonrenewable sources, thereby reducing the potential risks due to greenhouse emission, climate change, and pollution. This chapter gives an overall idea of biomass, its current state of art including properties, and application and challenges. This could provide an outline and entrance to the fascinating researches that provided biomass-based sustainable bioproducts.