Wood, fibre, and paper chemistry
- Extractives
- Polymerised extractives
- Polysaccharides
- Lignin
- Bark chemistry
- Bleaching of mechanical pulps
- Interactions in fibre suspensions
- Wet end chemistry
- Deposits and stickies
- Renewable process chemicals
Biorefinery
- Hemicelluloses
- Nanocellulose
- Polyphenols: lignans, pinosylvins, oligomeric polyphenols
- Fats and resins, polymerisation
- Lignin
- Knots and bark
- Utilisation of process side streams
- 3D bioprinting of biopolymers
- Biocomposites
- Biopolymers and extractives in biomedical applikations
Analytical methods and analyses in industry
- Analyses for the forest industry
- Analyses in new biorefineries
- Preparative methods, chromatography, mass spectrometry
- Hot water extraction, ASE
- Flow cytometry for process waters
- VOC analyses
Research staff
Chunlin Xu, Professor
Anna Sundberg, Senior University Lecturer, docent in fibre and paper chemistry
Ekaterina Korotkova, Laboratory Technician, Coordinator for analytical services
Juha Pekka Sunila, Laboratory Technician
Stefan Willför (on leave), Director of Safety and Sustainability
Researchers and Doctoral Students
Oskar Backman, Research assistant
Jarl Hemming, Senior Researcher
Liqiu Hu, Doctoral Student
Minette Kvikant, Research assistant
Zhiqiang Li, Doctoral Student
Rui Liu, Doctoral Student
Veronica Matamala, Doctoral Student
Andrey Pranovich, Senior Researcher, docent in wood chemistry
Annika Smeds, Senior Researcher, docent in organic environmental and bioanalytics
Luyao Wang, Doctoral Student
Qingbo Wang, Doctoral student
Xiaoju Wang, Academy Research Fellow (jointly affiliated 80% with Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Sciences)
Jiayun Xu, Doctoral Student
Wenyang Xu, Postdoctoral Researcher
Qiwen Yong, Postdoctoral Researcher
Weihua Zhang, Doctoral Student
Visiting Researchers
Marta Ramos Andres
Hongjie Bi, Visiting doctoral Student
Gaoyuan Ye, Visiting doctoral Student