*********************************
There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
*********************************
Atlanta, GA | Posted: June 1, 2013
Kelly B. Smith, Marketing & Communication
Summary Sentence:
Progress at ORNL on nanocellulosic materials
Full Summary:
No summary paragraph submitted.
Oak Ridge National LaboratoryResearchers reported significant progress October 29-30 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory during a second-annual review of consortium research on nanocellulosic materials. The consortium, organized in 2011 with US Forest Service funding, is a collaboration of the Forest Service, the Agenda 2020 Technology Alliance, and universities. Since 2004, the Forest Service-Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) and the Agenda 2020 Technology Alliance have been working collaboratively with university and other key partners to advance the commercial production and use of nanocellulosic materials from wood-based materials.
Nanocellulosic materials have the potential to become the basis of renewable, recyclable, sustainable materials in a host of applications including films, coatings, packaging, sensors and biosensors, communications, energy generation & storage, flexible electronics, batteries, automotive and aerospace, composite building materials, and much more.
Examples of the types of research and activities reported at the Oak Ridge session included:
In addition to IPST and Georgia Tech, researchers from North Carolina State University, Oregon State University, The Pennsylvania State University, Purdue University, and University of Maine reported on their work. Also, ORNL staff provided an in-depth tour of the Spallation Neutron Source, the Center for Nanophase Materials, the High Temperature Materials laboratory, and the BioEnergy Science Center, generating more ideas for nanocellulose research opportunities.
More than 50 industry representatives, university researchers, and government scientists attended including representatives from ORNL’s Advanced Manufacturing and BioEnergy programs. Georgia Tech was represented by Norman Marsolan, Art Ragauskas, Robert Moon, Natalie Girouard, Carson Meredith, Meisha Shofner, Bernard Kippelen and Yulin Deng.
Georgia Tech was awarded three grants in connection with this program. One went to Dr. Bernard Kippelen to support his work in nanocellulose for flexible electronics, one to Drs. Carson Meredith and Meisha Shofner to study cellulose nanocrystal-based aerospace electronics, and one to Drs. Yulin Deng and Art Ragauskas for improved barrier packaging.
