Orono, Maine — An article by ASCC researchers Lu Wang and Doug Gardner on the acetylation of cellulose fibers was recently published in ACS Applied Polymer Materials. The paper was co-authored with researchers from the Department of Forest BioMaterials at North Carolina University. Finding alternatives to petroleum-derived plastics will help reduce CO2 emissions in the […]
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Orono, Maine — An article by ASCC researcher Mehdi Tajvidi, other School of Forest Resources researchers Islam Hafez and Mohammad Tauhiduzzaman, and Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering researcher Douglas Bousfield, was published in Materials & Design. The paper is titled “Multiscale Modeling of Lignocellulosic Foams under Compression.” Foam products from non-renewable and non-biodegradable plastics […]
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Orono, Maine — An article by ASCC researchers Stephanie Christau, Elif Alyamac-Seydibeyoglu, Kayla Thayer, and William Gramlich was published in Cellulose. The paper is titled “Effects of an aqueous surface modification via a grafting-through polymerization approach on the fibrillation and drying of bleached softwood kraft pulp.” Cellulose nanofibrils, a component of wood pulp used in […]
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Orono, Maine — An article by ASCC researchers Anthony Verzoni and Masoud Rais-Rohani was published in Engineering Structures. The paper, titled “Transition analysis of flat-foldable origami-inspired deployable shelter concepts,” offers mathematical analysis with computer modeling and motion analysis to verify the loading profile required to erect folded structures and to detail how the loading profile […]
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