Digging out the potential of lignin
Lectures given at the 2024 Marcus Wallenberg Prize Symposium held in Stockholm on 12 November 2024.
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PART 1 SCIENTIFIC FOCUS, moderated by Paul Dupree, Professor University of Cambridge
Welcome and opening Remarks
Mr. Marcus Wallenberg, Chairman of the Marcus Wallenberg Foundation
You can do anything from lignin
Claire Halpin, Professor University of Dundee
Improving Wood Quality: From Systems Biology in Arabidopsis to Applications in Trees
Wout Boerjan, Co-recipient of the 2024 Marcus Wallenberg Prize, Professor of Biochemistry and Biological Systems Engineering, the Wisconsin Energy Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Organic Syntheses and Advanced Analytics for Understanding Lignin Biosynthesis, Structure, and Processing
Professor John Ralph, Co-recipient of the 2024 Marcus Wallenberg Prize, Professor of Biochemistry and Biological Systems Engineering, the Wisconsin Energy Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Announcement of Winner of the Young Researchers’ 3MT presentations
Presenter: Tahani Kaldéus, The Marcus Wallenberg Foundation
PART 2 LIGNIN INNOVATIONS IN FOCUS, moderated by Monica Ek, Professor KTH
From Kraft to Craft: Transforming Lignin into High-Value materials
Monika Österberg, Aalto University
State of the art in Industrial lignin separation
Hanna Karlsson, Valmet
Scaling high-performance material production from wood using aldehyde-assisted fractionation
Remy Buser, Bloom Biorenewables
PART 3 START-UPS IN FOCUS, moderated by Monica Ek, Professor KTH
Lignin: Next generation of renewables in plastics Used in PE, PP and ABS applications
Christopher Carrick, Lignin Industries
High performing batteries with lignin based graphene
Malin Alpsten, Bright Day Graphene
Bringing nature’s binder back to wood
Bitta Nilsson, Stora Enso
Summary
Monika Ek, Professor KTH
