NSF-PFI CIBER EXCHANGE GOAL

This program seeks to leverage the established educational and research expertise in the Center for Innovative Biomaterial Education and Research (CIBER) to develop joint technological exchange program between leading research institutions in the USA and Portugal.  This program, jointly sponsored by NSF is chartered to develop:

Student and faculty exchanges between Georgia Institute of Technology and leading universities in Portugal including, Universidade da Beira Interior and Universidade de Aveiro directed at teaching the next generation of scientists and engineers about the science/technology and social issues concerning biomass conversion.

Development of collaborative research programs leveraging the intrinsic research capabilities of the program participants directed at utilizing USA Loblolly pine and Portuguese Eucalyptus pulps and wood resources for innovative biomaterials.

Web-based learning modules describing the fundamental physiochemical properties of southern USA Loblolly pine and Portuguese Eucalyptus pulps and wood resources.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

• The New Lignocellulosic Age, Luleå University of Technology, Skellefteå Sweden (Sept., 2007).



• The path forward for biofuels and biomaterials. Primer Congreso Latinoamericano sobre Biorrefinerías: Oportunidades de innovación para el sector forestal, que se realizará los días Concepción, Chile (Nov., 2006)



• Engineering Fiber Charging and Barriers for Paper and Board, EU COST54, Riga Latvia (April, 2007)



• BioFueling the Future. Challenges - OpportunitiesGT Georgia Tech Advisory Board (April, 2007)



• Biofuels, Clark Atlanta University (April, 2007)



• Advanced Lignocellulosic Based Composite Materials, IPST Board of Trustees (April 2007)



• Biorefining the Future. 233rd ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL, United States, March 25-29, 2007 (2007)



• Biofueling the Future. National Academy of Engineering/GA Tech (March 2007)
  
  
• Seeing Fibers in a Pulp Forest, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden (March, 2007)
  
  
• Charging Fibers for New and Enhanced Strength Properties, Pira, Stockholm (March 2007)
  
  
• Biofuels and the Future, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (Feb., 2007)
  
  
• Biofuels for the Future, Carlsberg Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark (Feb., 2007)
  
  
• BioFuels: An Agenda for Research and Innovation.  GTRC Board of Trustees (Dec., 2006)
  
  
• The path forward for biofuels and biomaterials. Primer Congreso Latinoamericano sobre Biorrefinerías: Oportunidades de innovación para el sector forestal, que se realizará los días Concepción, Chile (Nov., 2006)
  
  
• L’Avenir des BioBiopolymeres Renouvelables, Lorexpo Metzes Congress, France (Nov. 2006)
  
  
• Topochemistry of Renewable Biopolymers, University Nancy, Nancy France (Nov., 2006)
  
  
• Food for Thought Seminar Series, Faculty of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, McGill University (Nov., 2006)
  
  
• Biomass to Bioproducts, Biofuels and Biopower - B2B3, AtlanTICC Alliance Symposium, Imperial College London (2006)
  
  
• BioFuels Research Opportunities/Needs, World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing, Toronto, Canada (2006)
  
  
• The Challenges and Opportunities for Next Generation of Forest Product Biorefineries, World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing, Toronto, Canada (2006)
  
  
• Profiling Biomass Resources and Their Chemistries, Shell, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2006)
  
  
• Future of Topochemical Cellulosic Fiber Modification. Metsa-Botnia, Jyväskylä, Finland (2006)
  
  
• Fiber Modification Chemistry, International Paper Cincinnati Technology Center, Loveland, OH (2006)
  
  
• Biofinery of the Future, Now. Rendez-Vous Atlantic Biotech, Guest of Government of Canada. Moncton, New Brunswick (2006)
  
  
• Chemistry of Fiber Modification, Nalco Chemical Company, IL (2006)
  
  
• Biofuels, College of Science, Georgia Institute of Technology (2006)
  
  
• Topochemistry of Fiber Modification, Hercules, Inc., DE (2006)
  
  
• Profiling Biomass Resources and Their Chemistries, Chevron – Texaco, Richmond, CA (2006)
  
  
• Over the Horizon View of Nano Coatings and Barriers for Paper. Pira's Ultra-thin Films and Nanocoatings Conference, Vienna, Austria (2006)
  
  
• Chemicals from Biomass, Alberta Research Council, Canada (2005)
  
  
• Platform Chemicals from Forest Biomass, Alberta Forestry Research Institute, Canada (2005)
  
  
• Nanotechnology in Pulp and Paper, Stora-Enso OYJ, Stockholm (2005)
  
  
• Platform Chemicals from Biomass. The World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing, ACS Orlando, FL (2005)
  
  
• Fiber Modification, Weyerhaeuser Company (May, 2005)
  
  
• A Few Good Fibers.  Pre-Symposium on Wood, Forestry, and Pulping Chemistry, Auckland, New Zealand (May 2005).
  
  
• Fiber Modification, Weyerhaeuser Company (May, 2005).
  
  
• Platform Chemicals From Biomass.  The World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing, ACS Orlando, FL (April, 2005)
  
  
• Nanotechnology in Pulp and Paper, Stora-Enso OYJ, Stockholm (Jan., 2005)
  
  
• Nascent Nanotechnology in Pulp and Paper and Its Future, PIRA, Stockholm (Nov., 2004)
  
  
• Biobleaching Chemistry of Laccase, Department of Chemistry, Mahidol University (May, 2004)
  
  
• Innovative Fiber Modification Chemistry, Asian Institute of Technology, Pulp and Paper Technology, Kasetsart University, Faculty of Forestry, Thailand  (May, 2004)
  
  
• Fiber Modification Chemistry, Taiwan Forestry Research Institute (May, 2004)
  
  
• Forest Products Biotechnology: Before and After. The World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing, ACS Orlando, FL (April, 2004)
  
  
• Of Trees and Termites and Things that Go Bump in the Night. Waste-to-fuel (Mr. Fusion) Conference,  Direct Technologies, Inc., Arlington, (May, 2003)
  
  
• Redefining The Pulp and Paper Industry with New Chemo-Enzymatic Technologies. Gordon Conference, Italy (May, 2003).
  
  
• Extending the Limits of Oxygen Delignification. Chakar, F.S.; Lucia, L.; Ragauskas, A.J., 2000 International Pulp Bleaching Conference, Halifax NS, Canada, 123, (June 2000).
  
  
• Developing New Pulp Fibers. Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Neenah, WI (2000).
  
  
• Fundamentals of Laccase Mediator System Delignification. Hercules Incorporated, Wilmington, DE (2000).
  
  
• Laccase Biobleaching Technologies. International Paper, Tuxedo Park, NY (2000).
  
  
• Fundamentals of Pulping and Bleaching. Westvaco Corp., Charleston Research Center (1998).
  
  
• Fundamentals of Biobleaching. STFi, Stockholm, Sweden (1998).
  
  
• Fundamentals of Pulping and Bleaching. Westvaco Corporation, Charleston Research Center, (Feb.,1998).
  
  
• Applications of NMR in Modern Pulping and Bleaching Research. Argonne National Laboratories (April,1998).
  
  
• Laccases in Biobleaching. Ragauskas, A.J. STFI, Stockholm, Sweden (May, 1997).
  
  
• Fundamental Structural Analysis of Residual Lignin in Kraft Pulp. Ragauskas, A.J., Ahlstrom Corporation, Glens Falls, NY (1997).
  
  
• Peroxide Pulp Bleaching Challenges. Ragauskas, A.J., Florida Catalysis Conference. Palm Coast, FL (April,1996).
  
  
• Fundamentals of Brightness Reversion, Nalco Chemical Company, Naperville, IL, Ragauskas, A.J. (June, 1996).
  
  
• Fundamentals of Brightness Reversion. Ragauskas, A.J., South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China (September,1996).
  
  
• Activated Peroxide Bleaching Chemistry. Ragauskas, A.J., South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China (September,1996).
  
  
• Photostabilization for High-Yield Pulps. Ragauskas, A.J., Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Neenah, WI (1996).
  

PLENARY SPEAKER

• Platform Chemicals from Biomass, Alberta Research Council, Canada (2005)
  
  
• Nanotechnology for Pulp and Paper, IPST/CPBIS Forest Products Techno-Business Forum, (2004)
  
  
• NanoBioterials, Nanotechnology Forest Products Workshop, Washington, DC, (2004)
  
  
• Nanotechnology in the Pulp and Paper Industry, Lake States TAPPI/NC PIMA Conference (2004).
  
  
• Redefining the Pulp and Paper Industry with New Chemo-Enzymatic Technologies. Gordon Research Conference, The Chemistry of Polysaccharides, Italy (2003).
  
  
• Back to The Future: How Current Pulp-Bleaching Research Will Influence Future Furnish Resources. 7th Pira Recycling Technology Conference, Brussels (Feb., 2002).
  
  
• Biotechnology in the Pulp and Paper Industry: A Challenge for Change. Ragauskas, A.J., 8th International Conference on Biotechnology in the Pulp and Paper Industry, Helsinki, Finland (June 2001).
  
  
• The Challenge of Change. Ferris, J.; Ragauskas, A.J., TAPPI Pulping Conference, Boston, MA (Nov. 2000).

HONORARY SPEAKER

• Nano-Biotechnology Changing the Challenge in Pulp & Paper Research, Ragauskas, A.J. 2003 TAPPI Fall Technical Conference: Engineering, Pulping & PCE&I, Oct., Chicago, IL.
  
  
• Nanotechnology – Changing the Challenge in Pulp and Paper Research, presented at Nano All Around Us Conference, The University of Wisconsin's Inaugural Technical Conference and Public Expo on Nanotechnology (2003).
  
  
• Advances in Fiber Modification, Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, Taiwan (2002).
  
  
• Chemoenzymatic Fiber Modification, Asian Institute of Technology and Department of Forest Products, Kasetsart University, Thailand (2002).
  
  
• Decade of Pulp and Paper Research, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania (2002).
  
  
• Pulp/Bleach Mill of the Future. Innovase hosted Mini-Symposium, San Diego, CA(2001).
  
  
• Developing New Pulp Fibers. Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Neenah, WI (2000).
  
  
• Fundamentals of Laccase Mediator System Delignification. Hercules Incorporated, Wilmington, DE (2000).
  
  
• Laccase Biobleaching Technologies. International Paper, Tuxedo Park, NY (2000).
  
  
• Fundamentals of Pulping and Bleaching. Westvaco Corporation, Charleston Research Center (1998).
  
  
• Fundamentals of Biobleaching. STFI, Stockholm, Sweden (1998).
  
  
• Fundamental Chemistry of Kraft Pulping. Ahlstrom Corporation, Finland (1998).
  
  
• Applications of NMR in Modern Pulping and Bleaching Research, Argonne National Laboratories (1998).
  
  
• Fundamental Structural Analysis of Residual Lignin in Kraft Pulp. Ahlstrom Corporation, Glens Falls, NY (1997).
  
  
• Peroxide Pulp Bleaching Challenges. Florida Catalysis Conference, Palm Coast, FL (1996).
  
  
• Fundamentals of Brightness Reversion. Nalco Chemical Company, Naperville, IL (1996).
  
  
• Fundamentals of Brightness Reversion. South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China (1996).
  
  
• Activated Peroxide Bleaching Chemistry. South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China (1996).
  
  
• Photostabilization for High-Yield Pulps. Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Neenah, WI (1996).
  
  
• Chemical Activation of Peroxide. 1995 TAPPI/NC State Emerging Pulping and Bleaching Workshop (1995).

INVITED SPEAKER AND RESEARCHER

• Appleton Papers, Ciba Corporation, Consolidated Papers Incorporated, Hercules Incorporated, International Paper, Innovase Corporation, Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Champion International Corporation, Weyerhaeuser Company, Westvaco Corporation, Union Camp Corporation, Novo-Nordisk, Nalco Chemical Company, Potlatch Corporation, Korsnas AB Sweden, Ahlstrom Corporation, Finland; Oji Paper Co., Japan; Nippon Paper Company, Japan; Cheng Loong Corp., Taiwan; Advanced Agro, Thailand; April, Singapore; Riaupaper, Indonesia.
  
  
• Governmental laboratories: Argonne National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, National Research Council of Canada, Taiwan Forestry Research Institute.
  
  
• Universities: Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia State University, North Carolina State University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Auburn University, Maine University, University of Wisconsin, University of Toronto, University of Western Ontario, McMaster University, University of British Columbia, Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Chalmers University, Sweden, Kaunas University of Technology Lithuania, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden, South China University, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand; Kasetsart University, Thailand.
  
  
• Invited by Olle Alsholm, President of Skogsindustrins Tekniska Forskningsinstitut, for Gunnar Nicholson sabbatical visit to the STFI Pulping and Bleaching Chemistry Group (1998).
  
  
• Invited to teach advanced graduate Fiber Line course at Department of Forest Products and Chemical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden (2001).
  
  
• Invited to J. Paul Getty Trust meeting to review photoaging of museum materials (2002).
  
  
• Invited speaker at NSF, AAAS sponsored EMERGE Conference: Strengthening and Fostering Productive Partnerships-The Corporate Academic Role. Seminar titled “Fostering Academic-Industry Relationships”, Atlanta (2003).
  
  
• Invited speaker at 2003 Gordon Conference Polysaccharide Chemistry, Redefining The Pulp and Paper Industry with New Chemo-Enzymatic Technologies. Ragauskas, A.J., Gordon Conference, Italy (May, 2003).
  
  
• Of Trees and Termites and Things that Go Bump in the Night. Waste-to-fuel (Mr. Fusion) Conference, Direct Technologies, Inc., Arlington, (May 21, 2003)

RECENT PRESENTATIONS

• Tunable solvents for fine chemicals from the biorefinery. Eckert, C.A.; Liotta, Charles L.; Ragauskas, A.J.; Hallett, J.P.; Kitchens, C.L.; Hill, E.M.; Draucker, L.C. 232nd ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, (Sept., 2006).



• Path Forward for NanoBiomaterials Derived from Lignocellulosics. Ragauskas, A.J.; Rials, T.G.; Ashurst, R.W.; Cullinan, H.T.; Wegner, T.H.; Holbery, J.D. TAPPI International Conference on Nanotechnology for the Forest Products Industry (2006)
  
  
• The synthesis of carbohydrates in ionic liquids. Zhang, J.; Ragauskas, A.J. 231st ACS National Meeting, Atlanta, GA, March 26-30 (2006)
  
  
• Arboreal nanotechnology. Ragauskas, A.J.; Rials, T.G.; Ashurt, R.W.; Cullinan, H.T.; Wegner, T.H.; Holbery, James D. 231st ACS National Meeting, Atlanta, GA, March 26-30 (2006)
  
  
• Probing fiber-fiber interfaces with fluorescence resonance energy transfer: Imaging individual fiber-fiber crossings. Thomson, C.I.; Lowe, R.M.; Ragauskas, A.J. 231st ACS National Meeting, Atlanta, GA, March 26-30 (2006)
  
  
• The dynamic change of fiber during extended oxygen delignification of SW kraft pulps. Zhang, D.; Pu, Y.; Ragauskas, A.J. 231st ACS National Meeting, Atlanta, GA, March 26-30 (2006)
  
  
• Fiber modification with peroxide bleaching on ECF pulp. Dang, Z.; Elder, T.; Ragauskas, A.J. 231st ACS National Meeting, Atlanta, GA, March 26-30 (2006)
  
  
• Green chemistry one-pot synthesis of 1,4-naphthoquinones and related structures. Witayakran, S.; Ragauskas, A.J. 231st ACS National Meeting, Atlanta, GA, March 26-30 (2006)
  
  
• An innovative green chemistry methodology for selective aerobic oxidation of primary alcohols. Jiang, N.; Ragauskas, A.J. 231st ACS National Meeting, Atlanta, GA, March 26-30 (2006)
  
  
• Fundamentals of Fiber Modification Chemistry. Ragauskas, A.J. Pu, Y., Allison, L. Pacifichem., HI (Dec., 2005)
  
  
• A Nano Perspective of Cellulose. Ragauskas, A.J. The Second Workshop on Regenerated Cellulose and Cellulose Derivatives, Karlstand University (Nov., 2005)
  
  
• New Value Streams from Residuals and Spent Liquor, Ragauskas, A.J., Fall TAPPI Technical Conference, Atlanta Nov. (2004).
  
  
• Ratiocination for laccase biobleaching of recycled paper. Knutson, Kristina; Ragauskas, Arthur J., 227th ACS National Meeting, Anaheim, CA, March 28-April 1, (2004).
  
  
• Industrial Biotech Applications in the Pulp and Paper Industry. Ragauskas, A.J., World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing Orlando, FL (2004)
  
  
• DBD, A Palmary Approach to Fiber Modification. Vander Wielen, L.; Ragauskas, A.J. AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2003)
  
  
• Enzymatic Biobleaching of Recalcitrant Paper Dyes/ Knutson, K.; Ragauskas, A.J. SERMACS, Atlanta, GA (2003).
  
  
• Nanotechnology – Changing the Challenge in Pulp and Paper Research, presented at Nano All Around Us Conference, The University of Wisconsin's Inaugural Technical Conference and Public Expo on Nanotechnology (2003).
  
  
• Dielectric Discharge Initiated Grafting onto Cellulosic Fibers. Vander Wielen, L. ; Ragauskas, A.J., Gordon Conference, Italy (May, 2003).
  
  
• Redefining The Pulp and Paper Industry with New Chemo-Enzymatic Technologies. Ragauskas, A.J., Gordon Polysaccharide Conference, Italy (May, 2003).
  
  
• Laccase: An Ancilla to Kraft Pulping. Dyer, T.; Kim, D.; Ragauskas, A.J., 225th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2002).
  
  
• Invigorating High Kappa Kraft Pulps with Laccase: Chandra, R.P; Ragauskas, A.J. 225th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2002).
  
  
• Parlaying Dielectric Breakdown Discharge for Fiber Modification. Vander Wielen, L.C., Ragauskas, A.J. 225th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA(2002).
  
  
• Molifying the Color of Recycled Paper with Laccase. Knutson, K.; Ragauskas, A.J., 224th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA (2002).
  
  
• Enhanced Environmentally Compatible Pulp Bleaching Chemistry. Yang, R.; Lucia, L.; Ragauskas, A.J.; Jameel, H. Intern. Conf. Organic Synth., Baltic Organicum Syntheticum, Vilnius, Lithuania(2002).
  
  
• Applications of Lignin NMR Techniques for Wood Resins. Dyer, T.; Ragauskas, A.J.; Nilvebrant, N.-O., 223rd ACS National Meeting, Orlando, FL (2002).
  
  
• Fiber modification with laccase: You say you want a revolution? Chandra, R.P.; Wolfaardt, F.; Ragauskas, A.J., 223rd ACS National Meeting, Orlando, FL (2002).
  
  
• Fundamental Delignification Chemistry of Laccase-Mediator Systems on High-Lignin Content Kraft Pulps-A Synopsis of Contributions. Chakar, F.S.; Ragauskas, A.J., 125th ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA(2001).
  
  
• Defining the Photostabilization Succor Properties of Acetylated Lignin. Ragauskas, A.J.; Pu, Y.; Lucia, L., 125th ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA(April, 2001).
  
  
• Laccase-Lignin Oxidative Chemistry. Ragauskas, A.J.; Allison, L.; Chakar, F.S., International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, Honolulu, HI (2000).
  
  
• Parsing Laccase’s Effect on Modifying Lignin. Chandra, R.; Ragauskas, A.J., International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, Honolulu, HI (2000).
  
  
• Structural Enhancement of Laccase-Lignin Reactions. Chakar, F.S., Ragauskas, A.J., 219th ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2000).
  
  
• Provenience of Lignin Reactivity in Extended Oxygen Delignification, Lucia, L.; Ragauskas, A.J.; Yang, R., International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, Honolulu, HI (2000).
  
  
• Breaking the Oxygen Delignification Barrier: Lignin Reactivity and Inactivity. Lucia, L.A.; Baosman, A.; Ragauskas, A.J., 219th ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2000).
  
  
• Insight into Laccase-Mediator Delignification of Softwood Kraft Pulps. Chakar, F.S.; Ragauskas, A.J., 1999 217th ACS National Meeting, Anaheim, CA (1999).
  
  
• New NMR Applications for Old Spectroscopic Techniques: Detection of Lignin-Quinone Structures by 31P-NMR. Zawadzki, M.; Ragauskas, A.J., 1999 ACS National Meeting, Anaheim, CA (1999).