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Biomaterial Chemistry Lab
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The lab explores ways to use biomaterials through the chemistry of wood components and their reactions.
AboutAbout the lab
Using wood chemistry to find ways to utilize biomaterials
The Biomaterial Chemistry Lab studies biomaterials such as wood from a chemical perspective and researches ways to utilize them.
The chemistry of wood pulping and pulp bleaching is one of its research topics.
The lab also works on biorefinery, the chemical utilization of biomaterials, and on trace analysis of wood components such as lignin.
The lab was formerly called the Forest Products Chemistry Lab.
Key terms
- Pulping (cooking)
- A process in which wood is treated with chemical solutions to separate its components and extract the fibers. It is one of the steps in making pulp
- Lignin
- One of the components contained in wood. Together with tannins and the sugars that make up cell walls, it is a target of the lab's analysis
- Biorefinery
- An approach that produces and uses a variety of substances from biological resources such as plants
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies biomaterials such as wood from a chemical perspective and researches ways to utilize them. Its research covers the chemistry of wood pulping and pulp bleaching, the chemical utilization of biomaterials and biorefinery, and trace analysis of wood components and other related substances.
*Illustrative imageChemistry of wood pulping and pulp bleaching
The lab studies the chemistry that takes place in wood pulping and pulp bleaching. Papers have been published on the effect of adding 2-methylanthraquinone to soda pulping of bamboo, and on reducing chlorine dioxide consumption in ECF bleaching of hardwood kraft pulp that is difficult to bleach.
*Illustrative imageChemical utilization of biomaterials
The lab studies methods for chemically utilizing biomaterials, as well as biorefinery. A paper has been published on making composite paper from alginate fibers derived from the sea.
*Illustrative imageTrace analysis of wood components
The lab studies analytical methods for examining, even in trace amounts, components contained in wood and related components, such as lignin, tannins, and the sugars that make up cell walls.
MembersFaculty
The lab's website introduces the faculty members as the members of the Biomaterial Chemistry Lab.
- Associate ProfessorAkiko Nakagawa
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Biomass drying in the sun” GIZ Bush Control and Biomass Utilisation Project / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Chemistry of wood pulping and pulp bleaching: “Some tanks left over from the old Georgia Pacific Pulp Mill in Bellingham ( )” Robert Ashworth from Bellingham, WA., USA / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Chemical utilization of biomaterials: “Biorefinery SunPine” Taylor / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Trace analysis of wood components: “Cross section of Cynometra spp. wood (Apomé)” G-Lignum / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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- Related lab (Microbial Functions and Applications Lab): “Compound Microscope Image” Ajay Kumar Chaurasiya / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Bio and Material Cycle Engineering Lab): “BYU Environmental Engineering Lab” Pastelitodepapa / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Industrial Microbial Resources Lab): “Microbiological seeding” Nycterixnycterix / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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