A paper by the laboratory of Energy Ecosystems, Department of Socio-environmental Energy Science (J. Wang, E. Minami, M. Asmadi, H. Kawamoto: Thermal degradation of hemicellulose and cellulose in ball-milled cedar and beech wood) was awarded the 15th Japan Wood Research Society Best Paper Award. The paper can be found https://doi.org/10.1186/s10086-021-01962-y.