Biorefinery Site
Research Opportunities
Ragauskas’ research activities cover a broad field of expertise including:
- Wood Characterization
- Pulping and Bleaching
- Pretreatments for Biofuels
- Fiber Engineering for Enhanced Strength/Bulk Properties
- Green Materials from Extractives, Lignin, Cellulose, and Hemicellulose
- Wood Composites PB, MDF, OSB
- Biological and Thermal routes to BioFuels
- Nano Lignocellulosics
- New Green Superabsorbents
- Characterization of Lignocellulosics
- Photo/thermal Aging Cellulosics
- Overview of Ragauskas Fiber Research
Research Opportunities
- Hardwood fiber modification from the integration of high kappa cooking and extended oxygen delignification for Eucalyptus and Acacia
- Graduate Research Activities
- Cellulosic Composites
- Enhancing Pulp Properties of Recycled Fibers with Oxidative Enzymes
- Black Liquor Lignin Recovery for Biofuels and Value-added Chemicals
- Defining Kraft Pulping Spectrum for Southern Loblolly Pine
- Next Generation ECF Bleaching Acacia and Eucalyptus Kraft Pulp
- Hemicellulose Extraction for Enhanced-Biofuels Production
- Engineering Pulp Fines into Superabsorbent Hydrogels
- New Paper and Board Composites
- Soda Oxygen Pulping Research Studies
- Improved Superabsorbent Kraft Pulps
- Wet Fiber Deformability for Paper, Board, Tissue or Towel