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22 April 202417 April 2024

Papira Schaumstoff

Zelluloseschaum für kunststofffreie Packmittel

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5 January 202421 December 2023

Metsä Group invests in startup FineCell that produces pulp-based materials for beauty, healthcare, and paint products

Metsä Group’s innovation company Metsä Spring consists of a group of investors, including EIT InnoEnergy and the company’s founder

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4 January 202420 December 2023

Wood materials make for reliable organic solar cells

Kraft lignin improves the stability in organic solar cells thanks to its ability to form hydrogen bonds that acts as a sort of glue

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Holzmaterialien ermöglichen zuverlässige organische Solarzellen

Kraftlignin verbessert die Stabilität von organischen Solarzellen dank seiner Fähigkeit, Wasserstoffbrücken zu bilden, die wie eine Art Klebstoff wirken

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11 May 20238 May 2023

The world’s first wood transistor

Researchers at Linköping University and the KTH Royal Institute of Technology have developed the world’s first transistor made of wood. Their study, published in the journal PNAS, paves the way for further development of wood-based electronics and control of electronic plants

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4 May 202328 April 2023

Coconuts and lemons enable a thermal wood for indoor heating and cooling

KTH researchers reported about the development of a wood composite thermal battery which is capable of storing both heat and cold and can be charged by any heat source

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8 February 20236 February 2023

Want a stronger biodegradable plastic? Add a ‘pinch’ of cream of tartar

Several researchers from KRICT and KTH wanted to see if “seasoning” a biodegradable bioplastic like PBS with fruit-derived tartaric acid or citric acid could improve the plastic’s mechanical properties

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29 November 202224 November 2022

Wood-based plastic may enable circular home furnishings and building materials

KTH researchers combined polymer chemistry with process technology similar to what is used for carbon fiber composites and got a degradable wood composite

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21 June 202115 September 2021

From milk protein, a plastic foam that gets better in a tough environment

A research team at KTH Royal Institute of Technology reports that the new material made from whey protein actually improves its mechanical performance after days of exposure to high temperatures

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17 May 202126 December 2021

Citrus derivative makes transparent wood 100 percent renewable

KTH researchers have successfully tested an eco-friendly alternative to the former fossil based polymers: limonene acrylate, a monomer made from limonene

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10 February 20215 February 2021

Developing fibrillated cellulose as a sustainable technological material

Fibrillated cellulose is produced from renewable resources, so its sustainability potential combined with its other functional properties makes this nanomaterial insteresting

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4 January 20219 September 2021

Kunststoff-Recycling: Viel zu schade für die Mülldeponie

Zahlreiche neue Verfahren werden derzeit erprobt, die Plastikmüll effizient und günstig in wertvolle Chemikalien verwandeln können

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11 March 20207 March 2020

Plastic from Wood

X-ray analysis points the way to lignin-based components made to measure

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Plastik aus Holz

Röntgenuntersuchung weist Weg zu maßgeschneiderten Bauteilen auf Lignin-Basis

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17 July 201914 July 2019

Spraying nanopaper

New process produces extremely smooth cellulose layers on an industrial scale

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Nano-Papier zum Sprühen

Neues Verfahren erzeugt dünne Zelluloseschichten im industriellen Maßstab

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24 April 201918 April 2019

Glas aus Holz

Dringt Licht auch bald durch Holz? Forscher arbeiten daran, Baustoffe aus dem Naturmaterial transparent zu machen

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15 April 201910 April 2019

This “glass” is made of wood, and you can control how much heat it conducts

Researchers from KTH have developed a window material made of wood that regulates how much heat it lets in – and out

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4 March 201926 February 2019

Grow your own bioplastic home, avocado-pit bioplastic, Arla and UPM’s wood-based dairy packaging, PHA bioplastic water bottle and more

The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of February 20th

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22 February 201919 February 2019

Form Us With Love & BAUX develop 100% bio-based acoustic pulp panels

Using different percentages of wheat bran, BAUX acoustic pulp comes to life with character and color, without using any chemicals at all

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25 May 201823 May 2018

Step aside Superman, steel is no competition for this new material

Steel could one day be replaced with specially arranged cellulose fibers

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18 May 201817 May 2018

Method assembles cellulose nanofibres into a material stronger than spider silk

KTH researchers describe a new method that mimics nature’s ability to arrange cellulose nanofibres into almost perfect macroscale arrangements

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Stärkstes Biomaterial der Welt schlägt Stahl und Spinnenseide

Neue Produktionsmethode überträgt herausragende Eigenschaften von Nanomaterialien in die Alltagswelt

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13 December 201711 December 2017

Award to Circular textile paper project

New paper manufacturing concept where the raw material is largely made up of low value fibres from textile recycling plants

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Ausgezeichnetes Papier-Projekt im Bereich textiler Kreislaufwirtschaft

Konzept beruht auf der Verwertung von minderwertigen Fasern aus Anlagen zum Recycling von Textilien

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11 May 20176 May 2017

Antioxidants and plastics could be made from byproducts of wheat milling

Researchers at KTH  have developed a process to extract valuable biomolecules from this offal that could be used as antioxidants, prebiotics and even food packaging material

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Getreide als Rohstoff: Verpackungsfolien aus Kleie als Alternative zu herkömmlichen Kunststoffen

Forscher an der Königlichen Technischen Hochschule in Stockholm haben einen Weg gefunden, die benötigten Wertstoffe aus der Kleie zu extrahieren

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5 April 20174 April 2017

Water filter from wood offers portable, eco-friendly purification in emergencies

What can the forests of Scandinavia possibly offer to migrants in faraway refugee camps? Clean water may be one thing

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24 February 201722 February 2017

Silk from milk? New method binds proteins into threads

New KTH research shows that ordinary milk can be used best to spin artificial silk

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Seide: Schwedische Forscher kommen Spinnen auf die Spur

Kuhmolke nach Aussage der Forscher das beste Ausgangsmaterial zur Herstellung künstlicher Spinnenseide

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8 November 20165 November 2016

KTH: Technique could lower cost of making bioplastics and biofuel

Swedish researchers found an efficient, non-destructive way to detect occurrence and purity of cellulose

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7 April 20165 April 2016

Wooden windows? New material could replace glass in solar cells and buildings

Swedish Researchers found optically transparent wood to be made by removing chemically the lignin

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8 March 20167 March 2016

H&M aim to make Green the new Black with new Global Change Awards

Grant of €300,000 were awarded to Finnish team behind Making waste-cotton new

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17 February 201616 February 2016

Carbon fibre from wood is used to build car

Swedish researchers developed the world's first model car with a roof and battery made from wood-based carbon fibre

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26 January 201625 January 2016

A renewable and biodegradable alternative to Styrofoam

Swedish scientists use wood to create a biodegradable, renewable material alternative

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24 November 201523 November 2015

Netzwerk von Forschungseinrichtungen katalysiert das Biomassepotenzial Europas

Einem durch die EU finanzierten Projekt ist es gelungen, den Zugang für KMU und Forscher zu Versuchsanlagen von Weltklasse zwecks Erprobung der nächsten Generation von Rohstoffen für Biokraftstoffe zu erleichtern

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Research facility network catalyses Europe’s biomass potential

An EU-funded project has made it easier for SMEs and researchers to access world-class testing facilities to trial next generation biofuel feedstocks

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12 January 20159 September 2021

Flexible Methan-Produktion aus Strom und Biomasse

KIT und DVGW setzen Pilotanlage DemoSNG zunächst in Schweden ein

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24 June 201424 June 2014

Cutting-edge research on non-food biofuels

MULTIBIOPRO project is developing second-generation non-food oils and biomaterials from poplar and the tobacco tree

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12 June 201411 June 2014

Stronger-than-steel fibre spun from wood

Whether they need to be strong as steel, or as soft as cotton, products of the future could be sourced from the forest, using new techniques developed at KTH Royal Institute of Technology

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28 January 201426 January 2014

Selbstspülendes Geschirr durch Lotuseffekt

Prototypen aus heiß gepresster und beschichteter Zellulose mit wasserabweisender Nanostruktur