报告题目：Lignin Containing Nanocellulose Functional Materials

　　报告人：颜宁教授，加拿大工程院院士

　　邀请人：王小慧教授

　　报告时间：2023年8月3日上午9:30

　　报告地点：造纸D楼304会议室

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轻工科学与工程学院

2023年7月19日

　　报告摘要：

　　In recent years, Professor Ning Yan’s group has pioneered the development of novel lignin containing nanocellulose fibrils (LCNF). LCNFs showed great promises as renewable lignocellulosic nano-bio-fillers for making high performance bio-based composites for a wide range of applications as packaging and barrier materials. With the presence of a large amount of lignin on the fibril surface, LCNFs exhibited some attractive distinctive characteristics compared to conventional pure nanocellulose fibrils without lignin. Her group has demonstrated excellent potentials of applying LCNFs for reinforcing engineering plastics as well as making fully biodegradable plastic biocomposites with highly improved mechanical properties and functional performances. Moreover, LCNFs have been shown to enhance functional performance of flexible energy storage devices, sensors, and tribonanogenerators (TENGs) with improved sustainability.

　　报告人简介：

　　Professor Ning Yan holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Bioproducts at the University of Toronto. She has also held a University of Toronto Distinguished Professorship previously and is the first Chinese professor to have been awarded this honorary title at the university. She was the Endowed Chair in Value Added Wood and Composites. Professor Yan is an internationally renowned expert in biomaterials engineering, green chemistry, and biopolymer science. She has done pioneering work in developing lignin containing nanocellulose and bio-based chemicals. Professor Yan is a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC) and International Academy of Wood Science (IAWS), and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE). Professor Yan obtained her PhD degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Toronto in 1997 and joined the University of Toronto as a faculty member in 2001 after working for various companies in Canada and US. She is currently the Director of the Low Carbon Renewable Materials Centre.