Professor Forum
Throughout a researcher’s career, numerous ideas have been tested but many did not hold their promise. Wouldn’t it be great to know which ideas were tested? In our ROI, we will have Professors who have been actively working in the area of nanocellulose discussing not only the latest scientific achievements but also what had been achieved, as well as what research ideas had been tried out but did not make it to publications.
Professor Forum Details
| Sunday, September 27th | |
| PROFESSOR FORUM 1 - FROM CHEMISTRY OVER PHYSICS TO MATERIALS Chairs: Alexander Bismarck and Eero Kontturi | |
| 09:45 - 10:15 | Organic Chemistry meets (Nano)cellulose: Up and Down of R&D Dieter Klemm, Institute of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry, Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Cellulose I to cellulose II transition in solid state - the old parallel/antiparallel riddle Thomas Rosenau, Division of Chemistry of Renewable Resources, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Cellulose nanocomposite fibers: Possibilities and challenges Aji Mathew, Stockholm University |
| PROFESSOR FORUM 2 - WHAT ABOUT SURFACE CHEMISTRY OF NANOCELLULOSE? Chairs: Thomas Rosenau and Dieter Klemm | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | First steps into nanocellulose surface chemistry: why doesn’t it just work?! Wim Thielemans, KU Leuven |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Unexpected differences in reactivity of inorganic species towards nanocellulose Richard Olsson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Nanocellulose: formulation-composition 2-D emulsion maps Orlando Rojas, Aalto University |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Polydispersity and assembling phenomena of native and dye-labelled nanocellulose Vanja Kokol, University of Maribor |
| Monday, September 28th | |
| PROFESSOR FORUM 3 - WHAT CAN WE DO WITH (NANO)CELLULOSE FOR COMPOSITE APPLICATIONS? Chairs: Wim Thielemans and Vanja Kokol | |
| 09:45 - 10:15 | Binderless biocomposites from nanofibrillated cellulose Ton Peijs, Queen Mary University |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Nanocellulose in Polymer Matrices Mikael Hedenqvist, KTH Royal Institute of Technology |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Do and Don’ts in wood/paper-polymer compounding Rupert Wimmer, Institute for Natural Materials Technology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences |
| PROFESSOR FORUM 4 - ORIENTING AND ASSEMBLING NANOCELLULOSE - CAN IT BE DONE? Chairs: Ton Peijs and Mikael Hedenqvist | |
| 15:15 - 15:45 | Unexpected orientations of cellulose nanocrystals - do they really do that? Steve Eichhorn, University of Exeter |
| 15:45 - 16:15 | How (not) to introduce preferred orientation into MFC and other complicated stories Wolfgang Gindl-Altmutter, Institute of Wood Technology and Natural Materials, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences |
| 16:15 - 16:45 | TEMPO-mediated oxidation of microcrystalline cellulose should lead to highly charged cellulose nanocrystals - but it does not really Eero Kontturi, Aalto University |
| 16:45 - 17:15 | Nanocellulose research – “Excellent results but still nothing striking in the market” Tanja Zimmermann, EMPA Switzerland |
