Nanocelluloses and nanolignins can be used for cultural heritage preservation! We discussed this interesting property in this new paper carried out during Camilla Camargos PhD in a collaboration with Prof. Piero Baglioni (University of Florence). Check it: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Congratulations to our PhD students Lidiane Oliveira and Polianna Silva for the presentations at SBPMat meetings last week about sugarcane-based materials and techniques to find lignin in plant cell-wall

Yesterday, our students Felipe Meneses and Mariana Neto showed their results at unicampoficial's PIBIC Conference for undergrad students. Interesting projects about using cellulose and lignin nanoparticles in art conservation and sunscreens. Congratulations!

This week, the Ph.D. student @EupidioScopel also showed his results about the use of sugarcane bagasse nanofibrils to produce hydrogel filaments in collaboration with Emily D. Cranston - Research Group at the Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference in Vancouver. Congratulations!

Last week, Camilla Camargos presented her poster at AUTOORG, discussing the relationship between the method to produce lignin nanoparticles and their properties, and won the award for the best poster!! Congratulations, Camilla!

Happy to share this new article in collaboration with Prof. Julio Pastre, Prof. Márcia Breitkreitz and Prof. Rodrigo Cormanich, using ionic liquids to produce ethyl levulinate from raw substrates. Check it: pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.102…

We are happy to share the result of a collaboration with the group of Prof. Julian Martinez about the impregnation of polyphenols extracted from passion fruit residues into corn statch aerogels. Check it: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We are delighted to share this new publication developed by some of our lab's current and former students. We proposed a biorefinery scheme to produce cellulose and lignin nanoparticles, aiming at complete biomass use. You can check it at: doi.org/10.1002/bbb.24…

New group pictures 📸

Delighted to be in 🇧🇷 visiting Laboratory of Biomass Chemistry and Morphology MA🅣🅡🅔🅔RIALS @EupidioScopel & others at UNICAMP chemistry unicampoficial. Great kickoff to the 🔥 week with a BBQ, seminar & research chats. P.S. the food is so good!!

Happy to share this collaboration with Prof. Andreia Faria's group (University of Florida)! We explored the potential mechanisms that render self-assembled lignin nanoparticles highly effective in selectively inactivating Gram-positive bacteria. Check it: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Check our new collaboration with CNPEM and University of Florida presenting the use of carbon dots produced from elephant grass in membranes for water treatment, acting as a strategy to minimize bacterial attachment and biofouling: pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.102…

Starting 2024 social events 😃

Excited to share our new collaboration with Prof. Andreia Faria's (University of Florida)! We showed different strategies in combining CNCs and silver NPs in membranes for water treatment investigaing antimicrobial and anti-biofouling properties: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Check our new contribution to passion fruit waste valorization by combining supercritical CO2 extraction and zeolites to concentrate phytosterols and squalene. Another result from a fruitful collaboration with Prof. Martinez's group from FEA-Unicamp: authors.elsevier.com/c/1iqHm3BwpfEt…