Cellulose Nanomaterials as Binder: From Lab to Industry

Cellulose Nanomaterials as Binder: From Lab to Industry

Online Webinar
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 to Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Nano Division Webinar

September 24th | 12:00PM (EST)

Cellulose nanomaterials (CNMs) have excellent binder properties that can be used to partially or fully replace common adhesives in an array of applications. This webinar will review the history of using CNMs as binder, presents state of the art and explores various ways CNMs can contribute to new product development efforts enabled by their binder properties.

Learning Outcomes 

  1. Explain how CNMs bon to other materials 
    Explain various binder applications of CNMs

Mehdi Tajvidi

Mehdi Tajvidi is the Associate Professor (Full professor as of 9/1/2024) of Renewable Nanomaterials in the School of Forest Resources and Advanced Structures and Composites Center, University of Maine. Previously, Mehdi worked at the USDA Products Laboratory, Madison, WI, the University of Tehran, Iran, the University of Tokyo, Japan and the University of Waterloo, Canada. Mehdi’s areas of research interest are production, characterization and performance evaluation of renewable nanomaterials and their composites. Mehdi’s core research area at UMaine is focused on utilization of cellulose nanomaterials in high volume applications such as coatings, packaging and building products. To date, Mehdi has published over 160 papers in academic journals, presented over 70 presentations at international conferences and advised/co-advised over 60 graduate students and postdocs. 

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