Laboratory of Biomass Chemistry and Morphology

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…

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…

Starting 2024 social events 😃

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…

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…

Delighted to be in 🇧🇷 visiting @LaQuiMoBio @matreerials @EupidioScopel & others at UNICAMP chemistry @unicampoficial. Great kickoff to the 🔥 week with a BBQ, seminar & research chats. P.S. the food is so good!!

Last week our group attended the 4th Nanocellulose Summit in São Carlos (Brazil). It was a great opportunity to discuss nanocellulose trends, meet Brazilian and international researchers and share our ongoing projects. Looking forward to the next edition

New group pictures 📸

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…

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…

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…

This article was a part of Dr. Gustavo Gomes's thesis (from Pastre's group) and was carried out together with the PhD student @EupidioScopel and Prof. Marcia Breitkreitz

Check our new article about the furfural production from sugarcane bagasse using a renewable ionic liquid. This work was a collaboration between our group and Prof. Julio Pastre and is an interesting approach to valorize biomass hemicelluloses authors.elsevier.com/a/1g7QU3IipnuQ…

Last week, @CamargosCHM 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!

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 @CranstonLab at the Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference in Vancouver. Congratulations!

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!

Congratulations to our PhD students @Lidi_deoliveira and @polianna_psf for the presentations at @SBPMat meetings last week about sugarcane-based materials and techniques to find lignin in plant cell-wall

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…