Ragauskas’ research activities cover a broad field of expertise including:

• Wood Characterization
• Pulping and Bleaching
• Pretreatments for Biofuels
• Fiber Engineering for Enhanced Strength/Bulk Properties
• Green Materials from Extractives, Lignin, Cellulose, and Hemicellulose
• Wood Composites PB, MDF, OSB
• Biological and Thermal routes to BioFuels
• Nano Lignocellulosics
• New Green Superabsorbents
• Characterization of Lignocellulosics
• Photo/thermal Aging Cellulosics
• Overview of Ragauskas Fiber Research

Research Opportunities

1. Graduate Research Activities
2. Cellulosic Composites
3. Enhancing Pulp Properties of Recycled Fibers with Oxidative Enzymes
4. Black Liquor Lignin Recovery for Biofuels and Value-added Chemicals
5. Defining Kraft Pulping Spectrum for Southern Loblolly Pine
6. Next Generation ECF Bleaching Acacia and Eucalyptus Kraft Pulp
7. Hemicellulose Extraction for Enhanced-Biofuels Production
8. Engineering Pulp Fines into Superabsorbent Hydrogels
9. New Paper and Board Composites
10. Soda Oxygen Pulping Research Studies
11. Improved Superabsorbent Kraft Pulps
12. Wet Fiber Deformability for Paper, Board, Tissue or Towel

Research Proposals

1. Innovative Pulp Fiber-Plastic Composites
2. Treatment of Waste Paper Sludge to Yield Bioethanol