Wood Materials for Optics and Photonics Webinar

TAPPI’s Nano Division is organizing a new webinar designed to give you strategies for improving the optical and photonic properties of wood, which can result in the formation of composites with enhanced transparency and light emission ability.  This one-hour event will also focus on possible applications of optical and photonic wood materials including energy saving, energy conversion and environmental sensing.

Historically, wood-light interaction studies have been focused on the investigation of photodegradation mechanisms (and strategies to counteract it) or the development of spectroscopic analytical techniques. However, the careful exploitation of wood’s unique anisotropic hierarchical structure and composition can open enticing opportunities for the design and production of sustainable optical and photonic materials.

Wood Materials for Optics and Photonics 
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Friday, December 6, 2024

Webinar attendance is open to everyone and there is no cost to attend, but registration is required.

Meet the Speaker
Dr. Guido Panzarasa
ETH Zürich

Guido received his PhD in Chemical Sciences in 2016 from the University of Eastern Piedmont “Amedeo Avogadro” (Italy). In 2018, he joined ETH Zürich, and in 2020 he was promoted group leader in the Wood Materials Science Laboratory.  Learn more about Guido.