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Applied Research

The material utilisation of renewable raw materials is one of the key issues of our time. Potential Applications are very wide-ranged starting with wood and fibre materials over additives for paper, colour and varnish industry or building materials to medical and pharmaceutical products.

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AN OVERVIEW OF IMPORTANT TOPICS

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Topics of research

Topics of research of the institute derive from the material utilisation of renewable raw materials. It includes the characterisation of wood and plants regarding to their chemical composition, the use as solid wood or fibre materials, the separation of individual components and their utilisation.
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Projects

The topics of research are dealing within the scope of national and international projects. Projects are funded by research programmes of the German Research Association (DFG), different federal ministries or the Cooperative Industrial Research (IGF). Within the projects the institute cooperate with a lot of research and industrial institutions in Germany and abroad.
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Publica­tions

Regular publications in scientific journals as well as presentation on scientific conferences contribute to the publicly availability of results of actual research. Economic utilisation takes place in terms of commercial protective rights.
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Applied Research

Numerous projects are carried out in cooperation with different partnes from research and industry. Actual research projects deal with the characterisation of annual and perennial plants, the digestion of wood and annual plants for extraction of components, the chemistry of polysaccharides, the preparation and functionalisation of cellulose beads, the separation and utilisation of lignin, The caharacterisation of Paper and paper additives, the analysis of thermal modified wood and the chemistry of binders.

Modern lab and technical school systems are available for realisation of projects. Prepared products can comprehensive characterised by wet chemical analyses as well as some numerous analytical methods like Raman, FTIR, UV/VIS spectroccopy, GC/MS and Py-GC/MS chromatography, mercury porosimetry, thermal anaylsis or particle size measurements.