Wood and Bionanocomposites

• Wood plastic composites
• Nanostructured biomaterials: isolation technologies of nanofibers and crystallites from different sources and their characterization
• Processing technologies for composite materials: compounding, reactive extrusion, solvent casting, elctrospinnig etc
• Relationships between process, structure and properties
• Composites long term properties

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  Open positions for PhD and Master Thesis: Processing and characterization of electrospunnen nanofibers reinforced with nanocrystallites (Master Thesis).

Division of Chemical engineering

• Surface Chemistry: activities are focused on both fundamental and applied research on the surface-aqueous and surface-surface interactions in various environments using modern surface sensitive methodologies (IR, NMR, XRD, SEM, etc.). Of particular interest are problems with a bearing on mining-, tribological- and environmental applications.

• Bioactive molecules: study of complex proteins, peptides and simple organic molecules. By studying the natural bioactive molecules or their synthetic analogues, valuable information about their therapeutic value as well as understanding of state of diseases can be gained.

• Biorefinary: the research is focused on the development of cost effective, integrated processes for the use of biobased materials in the production of chemicals and fuels. Much of the research is focused on the improvement of thermochemical and biochemical processes with an emphasis on the forest products industry.

• Zeolite: Zeolites are microporous crystalline materials with a very small and well defined pore size (0.3-1.3 nm). The focus of the zeolite group is development of new applications for the material zeolite e.g. membranes, structured catalysts, structured adsorbents and sensors.