{"id":76,"date":"2025-12-15T12:58:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T12:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/refibre-dn.eu\/?page_id=76"},"modified":"2026-04-08T09:18:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:18:17","slug":"dc3-university-of-graz-at","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/refibre-dn.eu\/index.php\/dc3-university-of-graz-at\/","title":{"rendered":"DC3: Arnold Tharun Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/refibre-dn.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DC3_Arnold-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/refibre-dn.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DC3_Arnold-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/refibre-dn.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DC3_Arnold-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/refibre-dn.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DC3_Arnold-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/refibre-dn.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DC3_Arnold-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/refibre-dn.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DC3_Arnold-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/refibre-dn.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DC3_Arnold-2048x2048.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h0d5f3b1c-86c5-444b-8792-15fae0019a80\">Tutors<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Tutor: K. Barta (UG)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Co-Tutor:&nbsp;P.J. Deuss (RUG)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Industrial Supervisor: J. Lindner (BASF)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h1d2da7e5-48ee-4798-bb8f-3f34733dfbc8\">Objectives<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Fe catalysed amination of alcohol-decorated lignins via homogenous catalysis and calculated related green reaction metrics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Develop catalytic approaches to access strategically designed end groups for vitrimer formation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Establish the application of selected lignins with high surfactancy in formulations<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Measure and quantify the chemo-physical properties of selected lignin samples.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"hbeb44622-7147-4c7d-b985-cb90453e5a16\">Secondments<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>UNIVE (3 months) investigation of colloid formation from selected amine-functionalized lignins (C. Crestini)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>BASF (4 months) investigation of selected surfactant lignins in formulations (J. Lindner)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Anton Paar (3 months) for specialized analytics related to surface charge and other measurements on selected lignins (H. Brasil)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutors Objectives Secondments<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-76","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/refibre-dn.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/refibre-dn.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/refibre-dn.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refibre-dn.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refibre-dn.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/refibre-dn.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246,"href":"https:\/\/refibre-dn.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76\/revisions\/246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/refibre-dn.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}