For a more sustainable society, we need to stop using advanced materials with a high carbon footprint. But what should we use instead?
This lecture by Tomas Rosén is about nature’s own building blocks, small so-called cellulose nanofibers, which can build new green sustainable materials. The key is to build orderly structures of nanofibers to control the properties of the materials, and to do so in industrial processes. But how can we control the assembly of nanofibers? And how can we even have a clue as to how they behave when they are only a few atoms thick? These are questions that are answered, among other things, in the research we carry out at synchrotron radiation facilities such as the MAX IV Laboratory in Lund, southern Sweden.
