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Pretreatment for the pulping process has advantages such as enhanced yield in biorefined products and reducing chemicals and energy consumption. This study examined the effect of an alkaline hydrolysis of birch sawdust on the chemical composition, aggregation ability, and surface activity of soda lignin obtained by soda pulping. The alkaline hydrolysis of birch sawdust led to a remarkable removal of hemicellulose and reduced its mechanical strength. The resorption of lignin fragments on the lignocellulosic matrix during the hydrolysis was observed. The soda pulping of the original and the treated sawdust was carried out under laboratory conditions at 165 \u00b0C for 90 min, using 4.5% sodium hydroxide. A higher yield of soda lignin and pulp was obtained from the treated sawdust. The reduced content of acidic and methoxyl groups in the chemical composition of the soda lignin from the hydrolyzed sawdust was explained by the predominance of polycondensation reactions in forming its primary structure. The changes in size and zeta potential values of the formed lignin particles, as well as in the modality of the size distribution with decreasing pH, were studied. The early-proposed suggestion about the existence of structural complementarity in the formation of the ordered lignin supermolecular structures has been testified. The higher surface activity at the air\u2013water interface for the soda lignin extracted from the hydrolyzed sawdust, compared to the lignin from the original residue, was mainly attributed to a lower content of the acidic groups in its chemical composition, shifting the hydrophilic\u2013hydrophobic balance of its structure toward hydrophobicity.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/polym17111455","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,5,23]],"date-time":"2025-05-23T12:24:18Z","timestamp":1748003058000},"page":"1455","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Effect of Birch Sawdust Hydrolysis on Chemical Characteristics, Aggregation, and Surface Activity of Extracted Soda Lignin"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"17","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3183-9103","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Galia","family":"Shulga","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry, Dzerbenes 27, LV-1006 Riga, Latvia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Brigita","family":"Neiberte","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry, Dzerbenes 27, LV-1006 Riga, Latvia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Valerija","family":"Kudrjavceva","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry, Dzerbenes 27, LV-1006 Riga, Latvia"},{"name":"Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, Latvian University, Jelgavas 1, LV-1004 Riga, Latvia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Anrijs","family":"Verovkins","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry, Dzerbenes 27, LV-1006 Riga, Latvia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1440-798X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Arturs","family":"Viksna","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, Latvian University, Jelgavas 1, LV-1004 Riga, Latvia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5904-1179","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sanita","family":"Vitolina","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry, Dzerbenes 27, LV-1006 Riga, Latvia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Julija","family":"Brovkina","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry, Dzerbenes 27, LV-1006 Riga, Latvia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Talrits","family":"Betkers","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry, Dzerbenes 27, LV-1006 Riga, Latvia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,5,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1246843","DOI":"10.1126\/science.1246843","article-title":"Lignin valorization: Improving lignin processing in the biorefinery","volume":"344","author":"Ragauskas","year":"2014","journal-title":"Science"},{"key":"ref_2","unstructured":"Mendez-Vilas, A. 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