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Research Highlights

Here you find the program for the Research Highlight sessions on Day 2 of Treesearch Progress (April 15), where PhD students, postdocs and researchers present their research.

The program is preliminary and might be updated before the conference.

1.1 Inside the cell wall: X-ray scattering analysis of modified and unmodified wood

  • Aleksi Zitting

1.2 Nanoscale 3D Mapping of Cellulose Nanofibril Organization in Plant Cell Walls

  • Mathias Nero

1.3 In-Situ Real-Time Observation of Paper and Other Materials Under Varying Displacement Rates Using Optical Microscopy (60 fps)

  • Seyed Ehsan Hadi

1.4 Linking Fabrication-Induced Nanostructure to Water Transport in Cellulose Nanofibril Films via QENS and Molecular Simulations

  • Maria Sol Malizia

1.5 Time-resolved inertial and ionic behavior of cellulose nanoparticles

  • Jonas Tejbo

1.6 Bringing iodine into polymer chemistry for enhanced X-ray analysis of lignocellulosic systems 

  • Åsa Jerlhagen
  • | KTH
  • At: 11.10

1.7 SEM and EDS characterisation of wood impregnated with turpentine-based microemulsion

  • Assem Akkuly

1.8 Imaging and analytical methods for interactions between bio-adhesives and porous substrates

  • Faisal Zeeshan

2.1 From Tree to Tool: Making the Lignin You Need

  • Maxim Galkin
  • | Karl Hedin Bio Innovation / Uppsala University
  • At: 9.00

2.2 Uniform lignin for biobased thermosets 

  • Fatima-Zahra El Bouchtaoui

2.3 EPR Insights into Lignin Radical Chemistry

  • Liam Mistry

2.4 On the Chemical Challenges Towards Green High-Performance Cellulosic Materials

  • Lukas Marcos Celada

2.5 Production of nanocellulose from hardwood using Fenton pretreatment with emphasis on fiber fragmentation and resulting coating performance

  • Morassa Raouf

2.6 Green and Efficient Cell Wall Nano-reconstruction under Ambient Temperature towards Strong Cellulosic Aerogels

  • Xiaoying Xu
  • | KTH
  • At: 11.10

2.7 Controlled Humidity Cycling as a Tool for Tuning Mechanical Properties of CNF Films

  • Damien Pierce

2.8 Drying behavior and kinetics of cellulose nanofiber filament prepared by flow-focusing methods

  • Masato Kamogawa

3.1 Towards High-Yield, High-Strength Pulps via Oxygen Delignification

  • Alvaro Castaneda
  • | KTH
  • At: 9.00

3.2 Comparative Esterification of Bleached Kraft Pulp with Itaconic Anhydride for Enhanced Mechanical and Surface Properties

  • Jelka Feldhusen
  • | Chalmers
  • At: 9.20

3.3 Biological treatment for pulp and paper sludge

  • Pakinee Thianheng

3.4 Bio-based fiber innovation for sustainable and safe menstrual products

  • Hafizur Rahman

3.5 High Viscosity, Low Compromise: New Biobased Rheology Modifier Matching Synthetic Performance

  • Lovisa Brandt

3.6 Bioactive Cellulose Foams: Linking surface modification and enzyme-catalyzed phenolic acid functionalization to foam structure and stability

  • Io Antonopoulou

3.7 Protein–Polysaccharide Hybrid Foams with Enhanced Liquid Retention for Sustainable Absorbents

  • Yuhong Zhang

4.1 Oxygen Pulping: A high‑yield alternative to Kraft pulping

  • Cláudia Esteves

4.2 Is it possible to completely dry cellulose?

  • Aleksandar Mehandzhiyski

4.3 Nanocellulose from carboxylic acids and their stability

  • Beatrice Swensson

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