Project title
Green modification platform via chemical catalysis
(Co)tutors
- Tutor: K. Barta (UG)
- Co-Tutor: J. Van Hal (TNO)
- Industrial Supervisor: J. Lindner (BASF)
Objectives
- Fe catalysed amination of alcohol-decorated lignins via homogenous catalysis and calculated related green reaction metrics
- Develop catalytic approaches to access strategically designed end groups for vitrimer formation
- Establish the application of selected lignins with high surfactancy in formulations
- Measure and quantify the chemo-physical properties of selected lignin samples.\
Secondments
- UNIVE (3 months) investigation of colloid formation from selected amine-functionalized lignins (C. Crestini)
- BASF (4 months) investigation of selected surfactant lignins in formulations (J. Lindner)
- Anton Paar (3 months) for specialized analytics related to surface charge and other measurements on selected lignins (H. Brasil)