Scientific program:

Oral and poster presentations will cover the following topics:

  • Characterization of cellulose and derivatives
  • Surface chemistry of polysaccharides
  • Chemical synthesis of cellulose and derivatives
  • Functionalization of cellulose
  • Cellulosic copolymers
  • Biomaterials based on cellulose
  • Oxidation of polysaccharides
  • Chitin and chitosan
  • Solution structure of polysaccharides
  • Scattering techniques
  • Rheology of polysaccharides

 

A time schedule and the full program are ready for download.

Lectures:

Fumiaki Nakatsubo
Kyoto University 

Role-sharing functionalization of cellulose

Kanji Kajiwara
Otsuma Women´s University

Conformation of malto-oligosaccharide in side-chains of glycoconjugate polystyrene in aequeous solution

Yasumitsu Uraki
Hokkaido University

Fabrication of honeycomb patterned bacterial cellulose

Junji Sugiyama
Kyoto University

Structure and function of cellulose microfibrils in tension wood

Akira Isogai
University of Tokyo

TEMPO-mediated oxidation of polysaccharides: its fundamentals and applications

Seichi Tokura
Kansai University

Physiological function of chitin and chitosan

Katsuyoshi Nishinari
Osaka University

Rheological and related properties of polysaccharides (xyloglucan, xanthan, methyl cellulose)

Shin-ichiro Shoda*, T. Kotake, A. Kobayashi
Tohoku University

Enzymatic functionalization of oligosaccharides

Shin-ichiro Nishimura
Hokkaido University

Synthesis, characterization and functionalization of carbohydrate-based materials

Yoshiyuki Nishio
Kyoto University

Structure, property, and functionalization of cellulosic graft copolymers with aliphatic polyester side-chains

Dieter Klemm
University Jena, Germany

News from biomaterials based in cellulose

Herbert Sixta,
Lenzing, Austria

Prediction of changes of the molecular weight distribution during degradation of cellulose substrates

Walther Burchard
University Freiburg, Germany

Structure of methyl-hydroxypropyl cellulose (MHPC) in the light of different characterization methods

Bodo Saake*, Martin Zenker, Jürgen Puls
BFH Hamburg, Germany

Studies in prehump and main fractions of cellulose-2,5-acetate in acetone

Pedro Fardim
Abo Akademi, Turku, Finland

Chemical microscopy of polysaccharides: from model compounds to cellulosic fibres

Jurgen Engelhardt
Wolff Cellulosics, Walsrode
Germany

R & D on cellulose derivatives: industrial prospects and needs

Daniel Samain
CERMAV, Grenoble, France

Chromatogenic chemistry, a new brand of chemistry for molecular grafting nanotechnology

Petra Mischnick
TU Braunschweig
Germany

Novel possibilities by cationic ring-opening polymerisation of cyclodextrin derivatives: preparation of copolymers with block-like sequences

Bjorn Stokke
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim Norway

Chitosan as a gene delivery vehicle: Influence of molecular properties on compacting DNA to nanosized particles

Hans-Peter Fink
Fraunhofer Institute, Golm Germany

Effects of  NaOH-urea-solutions on cellulose

K.Christian Schuster*, Mohammad Abu Rous, Uta Schädel, Peter Hosemann, Christian Teichert
Lenzing, Austria

Characterization of cellulose fibres by modern imaging techniques: Fibrillar and pore structure in the dry and wet state

Paul Kosma*, Antje Potthast, Thomas Rosenau, Rainer Bohrn
BOKU Vienna, Austria

Analysis of functional groups in cellulosics