Programme
Sustainable Materials Research Summit 2023
SMART 2023 will only be held in-person with no online/remote presentations or participation
Sunday, 20 August 2023

17:00 Porthania lobby - Finger foods and beverage options to be provide 
Monday, 21 August 2023

8:00 Registration open
9:00 Welcome (Kirsi Mikkonen and Orlando Rojas)

9:10 Hongmei Gu (US Department of Agriculture)
Life cycle assessement (LCA) of lignocellulosic material and the effect of biodiversity

9:35 Mari Kallioinen (LUT University, Finland)
Valorization of side streams

10:00 Joseph Samec (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Lignin valorization towards a real biomass feedstock

Coffee break

10:20 Monika Österberg (Aalto University, Finland)
Development of new sustainable materials using polymers derived from lignin, cellulose and hemicelluloses

10:45 Yuanyuan Li (KTH, Sweden)
Wood biocomposites as functional materials

11:10 Alain Dufresne (Grenoble INP, France)
Processing of cellulose reinforced polymer nanocomposites

11:35 Mario Culebras Rubio (University of Valencia, Spain)
Lignin micro/nanoparticles for the  encapsulation of agrochemical products

12:00 Lunch – buffet served upstairs

13:00 Yoshiharu Nishiyama (CNRS, France)
Crystallography of polysaccharides: Current state and challenges

13:25 Hugh O´Neill (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
Neutron scattering techniques

13:50 Jakob Wohlert (KTH, Sweden)
Simulation of water, hydrogen bonding in cellulose

13:50 Alistair King (VTT - Finland)
NMR

 

Coffee break

15:10 Lennart Bergstrom (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Bio-based and waste-based materials

15:35 Svitlana Filonenko (MPI, Germany)
Sustainable Solvents for Green Processes

16:00 Posters and refreshments

18:30 Evening: Networking dinner
Tuesday, 22 August 2023

9:00 Ilkka Kilpeläinen (UH, Finland)
Ionic liquids

9:25 Kai Zhang (University of Göttingen, Germany)
Wood technology and wood-based Composites

9:50 Jaana Vapaavuori (Aalto - Finland)
TBD

Coffee break

10:35 Maurice Collins (University of Limerick, Ireland)
Biobased polymers for biomedical applications

11:00 Irina Smirnova (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany)
Biomedical applications of aerogels

11:25 TBD
TBD

12:00 Lunch – buffet served upstairs

13:00 Spinnova (Shahriare Mahmood)

13:15 LignoPure (Wienke Reynolds)

13:30 Panel Discussion - Research and innovation to tackle sustainability challenges
Panel: Shahriare Mahmood, Wienke Reynolds, Orlando Rojas

14:00 Posters and refreshments

15:30 Address from conference organizing team

15:40 Poster Award - Organizing committee

15:50 Announcement of the next conference – Liangbing Hu

16:00 Closing remarks – Kirsi Mikkonen