Programme

Sustainable Materials Research Summit 2024
SMART 2024 will only be held in-person with no online/remote presentations or participation
Wednesday, 21 August 2024

17:00 - 19:00: Think Corner / Tiedekulma: Fönster - Yliopistonkatu 4, 00100 Helsinki - Finger foods and beverage options to be provided

The evening will include 5 short presentations from Sukaina Ben taleb Ikutza, Carla Caponia, Lin Chen, Alberto José Huertas-Alonso and Ville Loviika.

Thursday, 22 August 2024

7:45 Please Note - Bus departs City centre (Mikonkatu 19, 00101 Helsinki) to the Conference venue (Viikki Campus - Infokeskus Korona)

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

9:10 Joseph Samec (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Sustainable aspects on biomass valorization

9:40 Alain Dufresne (Grenoble INP, France)
Processing of cellulose reinforced polymer nanocomposites

10:10 Monika Österberg (Aalto University, Finland)
Films, foams and hydrogels from lignocellulosic nanomaterials

Coffee break

11:00 Yuanyuan Li (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Wood - mineral nanocomposites for energy harvesting

11:30 Kristian Melin (Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology, Finland)
Valorization of side streams

12:00 Lunch – salad buffet served in Biocentre 1

13:00 Orlando Rojas (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Nanopolysaccharide Gelation in Bioproduct Development 

13:30 Mika Sipponen (Stockholm University, Sweden)
High-consistency lignin particle dispersions pave the way for scalable commodity materials

14:00 Jaana Vapaavuori (Aalto University, Finland)
Designing plant-based functional materials towards carbon-negative applications

14:30 Lennart Bergstrom (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Harnessing biobased and waste-based nanofibers for foams and aerogels

Coffee break

15:15 Kirsi Mikkonen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Functionality of lignin-hemicellulose hybrid particles

15:45 Bruno Mattos (Aalto University, Finland)
Development of functional materials and multiphase systems from tannins

16:15 Posters and refreshments

17:45 Bus departs to Berghyddan (http://www.berghyddan.fi/)

18:00 Networking dinner at Berghyddan (http://www.berghyddan.fi/

22:00 Bus departs Berghyddan to the City Centre (via Viikki)

Midnight: Berghyddan closes

Multiple public bus options available to return to the centre.

Friday, 23 August 2024

9:00 Svitlana Filonenko (Max Planck Institute, Germany)
Sustainable Solvents for Green Processes

9:30 Kai Zhang (University of Göttingen, Germany)
Chemical modification on biomass to target functionality

Coffee break

10:30 Yi Lu (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Active and living bio-based colloids

11:00 Alistair King (VTT, Finland)
NMR

11:30 Lunch – salad buffet served in Biocentre 1

12:30 Lignopure (Wienke Reynolds)
Novel multifunctional, natural cosmetic ingredients - Lignopure's approach to unlock the true potential of lignin

12:50 BioNavis (Annika Järvinen)
Nanoscale Interactions in Sustainable Materials: Insights from MP-SPR Characterization

13:10 Spinnova (Shahriare Mahmood)
SPINNOVA® fiber- A true sustainable alternative for the textile industry 

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

14:00 Posters and refreshments

15:45 Poster Award (Annika Jarvinen – BioNavis)

15:50 Announcement of the next conference - Orlando Rojas

15:55 Closing remarks – Kirsi Mikkonen