Sheila Murphy, a long time serving Executive committee member of the CELL division has been named ACS Fellow in 2019. She is recognized for her significant contributions to the cellulose chemistry for dissolving pulp manufacture and applications including research, manufacturing and customer support, as well as external technology support coordinating industrial research with academics. Sheila …
The 1st place of the 2020 CELL Division Graduate Student Award goes to Liyang Liu from University of British Columbia. His research focuses on developing a platform for the modification of lignin into a variety of polymeric materials with a focus on utilising green chemistry strategies. A major accomplishment is in the development of a …
The 2019 KINGFA Young Investigator Award winner is Dr Johan Foster, Associate Professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Virginia Tech. Johan’s work has encompassed a number of fundamental contributions to the field of fibers and cellulose nanomaterials, including chemical modification, surface chemistry, and fundamental interactions. Specific examples that have had a large …
The Centennial Logo Team are pleased to announce the winner of the recent competition for a new CELL logo to celebrate our 100th birthday. The team had just under a dozen submissions and the judges had their work cut out to choose the most appropriate submission. The winning submission was based on our guidelines that …
To all our talented and artistic CELL members we are running a centennial logo competition with a $100 prize to the winning logo and recognition of the top three logos on our website and in our Newsletter, Fibril Angle. We ask that the logo reflects our members, vision and future. Specifically, the logo should be …
The 2019 Anselme Payen Award winner is Dr Ann-Christine Albertsson, Emeritus Professor at the Department of Fibre and Polymer Technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Sweden. Dr Albertsson will be presented with the award at the ACS Cellulose and Renewable Materials Division Awards Banquet following a symposium in her honour during the 2020 ACS Spring …
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Join ACS stakeholders from all over the globe by taking part in Chemists Celebrate Earth Week (CCEW), April 21-28! CCEW is a global initiative that encourages chemists and chemistry enthusiasts to build awareness of chemistry at the local level. This year’s CCEW 2019 theme, “Take Note: The Chemistry of Paper,” focuses on the chemistry of one …
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Dr Patrick Navard from Centre de Mise en Forme des Matériaux / Centre for Materials Forming MINES ParisTech – CNRS is the 2019 Cellulose and Renewable Materials Division Fellow in recognition of his efforts to strengthen the relationship between CELL Division and EPNOE. Congratulations to him! Click here to find out more about this award
Nele Zwirchmayr has won the 1st place and Prodyut Dhar has won the 2nd place in the 2019 CELL Division Graduate Student Awards. Nele works at the University of University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, under the supervision of Professor Thomas Rosenau, Her research is in close cooperation with companies from the pulp …
The 2019 ACS Fall meeting will be held in San Diego CA on Aug. 25 – 29, with the theme of Chemistry and Water. CELL DIvision will be organising 5 symposiums: Advances in Characterizing Modified & Degraded Wood Influence of Inorganic Content on Wood Industrial Properties Lignin Based Bioproducts Materials Advances in Nanocellulose Research for …
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