Lars Wågberg, Professor at KTH, receives the prestigious Anselme Payen Award 2024, awarded by the American Chemical Society’s Cellulose and Renewable Materials (CELL) Division.
The “33-listan” is published by Ny Teknik, a Swedish language science and engineering magazine. Each year they highlight 33 promising innovation-focussed start-up companies, which must be based in Sweden and have been founded less than seven years ago. The 2023 list showed a big emphasis on forest-related companies in the Swedish start-up scene.
Chalmers University of Technology and WWSC have recruited two new Assistant Professors, Amparo Jimenez Quero and Liyang Liu, to further develop and broaden the scientific competence within the center.
WWSC Director Professor Eva Malmström has been elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in the Class for engineering sciences.
WWSC researchers at Linköping University have been part of developing a more environmentally friendly method for creating conductive inks for use in organic electronics like solar cells and artificial neurons.
Tiina Nypelö, associate professor at Chalmers and Aalto University, is one of the authors to the European Polysaccharide Network of Excellence (EPNOE) research roadmap 2040: Advanced strategies for exploiting the vast potential of polysaccharides as renewable bioresources.
WWSC researchers at Linköping University and KTH Royal Institute of Technology have developed a lignin-organic semiconductor composite materials for use as cathode interface layers in organic solar cells. The material is enhancing both the stability and the power conversion efficiency in state-of-the-art devices, thus paving way for biobased solar cells.
WWSC member Mika Sipponen, Assistant Professor at Stockholm University, is one of the 31 Wallenberg Academy Fellows 2023. In his research Mika Sipponen will investigate encapsulation of microorganisms into lignin-based materials, to make sustainale functional materials.
The 2023 funding decisions for the Swedish research councils Vetenskapsrådet and Formas were announced in early November. Among the awardees were several WWSC affiliated researchers who will receive financing for 3-4 year projects within the areas of natural science and engineering.
Congratulations to the winners of the WWSC Winter workshop 2023 best poster awards: Sol Malizia, Paula Pou i Rodríguez and Mohammad Morsali!
The electrification of our society has led to a growing need for efficient and sustainable battery recycling methods. In response to this challenge, researchers at WWSC at KTH have achieved a breakthrough in battery recycling by using nanocellulose in the metal separation. This innovative approach has the potential to significantly simplify the separation of battery metals from other materials, addressing the pressing demand for eco-friendly recycling processes.
End of October the first course in the next WWSC Academy starts. The graduate school gives the participants both an overview of the research field and a network for future collaborations.
WWSC is a joint research center between KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Chalmers University of Technology and Linköping University. The base is a donation from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. The Swedish industry is supporting WWSC via the platform Treesearch.
