News

2021

March

February

  • Welcome Dr. Yeling Zhu joining the SFB lab as a PDF. Dr. Zhu obtained his PhD degree from University of Alberta.
  • Prof. Jiang delivered a presentation on “Cellulose nanofibrils/emulsion composite aerogel with enhanced thermal insulating performance.” at 2021 BIOFOR International Conference online.
  • Prof. Jiang was invited to give a webinar on “Nanocellulose: Sustainable isolation and advanced applications.” in the 2021 TAPPI NANO Webinar Series.

January

  • Welcome Lili Wang joining the SFB lab as a new PhD student. Lili obtained her master degree from Polytechnique Montreal working on polymer film for packaging application;
  • Welcome Jiaying Zhu joining the SFB as a new PhD student. Jiaying obtained her master degree from Jiangnan University working on nanoparticle synthesis for antibacterial application.
  • Prof. Jiang was elected as Member-at-large at American Chemical Society Cellulose and Renewable Materials (ACS CELL) from Jan 2021 – Dec 2023.
    https://acscell.org/about-us/elected-officials/
  • Prof. Jiang was appointed as Seminar Chair by TAPPI Nano Division
    https://www.tappinano.org/the-nanodivision/webinar-committee/
  •  Congratulations to Yuan Chen’s paper on “Superelastic, Hygroscopic, and Ionic Conducting Cellulose Nanofibrils Monolith by 3D Printing” is accepted for publications in ACS Nano. Great job!
    https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsnano.0c10577
  • Congratulations to Hengfei Qin’s paper on “Metal Organic Framework (MOF)/Wood Derived Multi-cylinders High-Power 3D Reactor” is accepted for publications in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. Great job!
    https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsami.0c21664
  • Congratulations to Xushen Han’s paper on “The use of endoglucanase and accessory enzymes to facilitate mechanical pulp nanofibrillation” is accepted for publications in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. Great job! This work was in collaboration with Prof. Jack Saddler.
    https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acssuschemeng.0c08588

2020

November

  • Our collaborated work on “Application of magnetron sputtering to deposit a multicomponent separator with polysulfide chemisorption and electrode stabilization for high-performance lithium‑sulfur batteries.” with Prof. Huang at Jiangnan University was accepted for publication in Surface and Coatings Technology
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0257897220312500

October      

  • Welcome Lili Wang joining the SFB lab as a research assistant.

 September

  • Congratulations to Penghui Zhu’s paper on “Electrostatic self-assembly enabled flexible paper-based humidity sensor with high sensitivity and superior durability” is accepted for publications in Chemical Engineering Journals. Great job!
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1385894720332320
  • Congratulations to Xushen Han’s paper on “Potential to produce sugars and lignin-containing cellulose nanofibrils from enzymatically hydrolyzed chemi-thermomechanical pulps.” is accepted for publications in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. Great job! This work was in collaboration with Prof. Jack Saddler.
    https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acssuschemeng.0c05183
  • Congratulations to Mingyao Song’s paper on “Flexible and Super Thermal Insulating Cellulose Nanofibril/Emulsion Composite Aerogel with Quasi-Closed Pores.” is accepted for publications in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Great job!
    https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsami.0c14091

August

July

June

May

  • Congratulations to Yuhang Ye’s paper on “Cellulose nanofibrils enhanced, strong, stretchable, freezing-tolerant ionic conductive organohydrogel for multi-functional sensors” is accepted for publications by Advanced Functional Materials. Great job! https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/adfm.202003430

April

  • Hale Oguzlu presented “High precision 3D printing of cellulose into super strong yet flexible structure” at the online ACS CELL division “New Horizons” symposium;
  • Congratulations to Jungang Jiang’ paper on “High production yield and more thermally stable lignin containing cellulose nanocrystals isolated using a ternary acidic deep eutectic solvent” is accepted for publication by ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. Great job! https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acssuschemeng.0c01724
  • Feng Jiang’s book chapter on “Cellulose fibers” is published in “Handbook of Fibrous Materials” by Wiley.

March

  • Congratulations to Jungang Jiang for winning 3rd place at the Environmental Innovators Awards organized by Environmental Managers Association of British Columbia;
  • Congratulations to Hale Oguzlu for winning 1st place in poster presentation at the 21st Burgess-Lane Memorial Lectureship poster competition organized by Faculty of Forestry at UBC.
  • Congratulations to Hengfei Qin’s paper on “Flexible nanocellulose enhanced Li+ conducting membrane for solid polymer electrolyte” is published in Energy Storage Materials. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2405829720301008

February

  • Dr. Jiang gave a presentation on ““3D functional materials derived from cellulose.” At the UBC Centre for Advanced Wood Processing (CAWP) open house seminar.
  • Our U.S. provisional patent on “Production of lignin-containing nanocellulose” was filed.
  • Our review paper on “Reducing End Modification on Cellulose Nanocrystals: Strategy, Characterization, Applications and Challenges” was published in Nanoscale Horizons. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2020/NH/D0NH00016G#!divAbstract

January

  • Dr. Jiang gave a presentation on ““3D functional materials derived from cellulose.” At the UBC Centre for Advanced Wood Processing (CAWP) open house seminar.
  • Our U.S. provisional patent on “Production of lignin-containing nanocellulose” was filed.
  • Our review paper on “Reducing End Modification on Cellulose Nanocrystals: Strategy, Characterization, Applications and Challenges” was published in Nanoscale Horizons. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2020/NH/D0NH00016G#!divAbstract

2019

December

  • Congratulations to Jungang for their poster on DES treated LCNC being selected to present at the Environmental Innovators Awards workshop
  • Welcome Prof. Hengfei Qin joining the SFB lab as visiting professor. Prof. Qin is Associate Professor from Jiangsu University of Technology.
  • Hale Oguzlu’s book chapter on “Nanopolysaccharides in surface coating” is published in “Advanced Functional Materials from Nanopolysaccharides” by Springer. Great job!

November

  • Xiaoshuai Han’s paper “Hydrogen-bonding-induced assembly of aligned cellulose nanofibers into ultrastrong and tough bulk materials” is published in Journal of Materials Chemistry A. Great job! https://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2019/TA/C9TA11118B#!divAbstract
  • Welcome Penghui Zhu joining the SFB lab as visiting PhD student. Penghui is a PhD. Student at South China University of Technology under supervision of Prof. Gang Chen
  • Dr. Jiang was invited to give a talk on “Renewable bio-based materials for water treatment” at the UBC Environmental Systems Engineering (ESE) seminars.
  • Dr. Jiang was invited to give a talk on “Cellulose nanofibrils based substrates for flexible electronics” at the Wearable Health Futures Workshop, UBC SmarT Innovations for Technology Connected Health (STICH) cluster.

October

  • Welcome Prof. Xueyong Ren joining the SFB lab as visiting scholar. Prof. Ren is an Associate Professor from Beijing Forestry University

September

  • Welcome Sibo Tian and Yi Zheng joining the SFB lab as Master students;
  • Welcome Qinqin Zhang joining the SFB lab as visiting PhD student. Qinqin is a PhD. Student at Beijing Forestry University under supervision of Prof. Junwen Pu;
  • Yuhang Ye presented his research on “Nanocellulose hybrid hydrogels for ionotronics assembly” at the 2019 BPI Researcher Day;
  • Hale Oguzlu presented her research on “3D printability of cellulose” at the 2019 BPI Researcher Day

August

  • Dr. Jiang was invited to give a talk on “Advanced assembly and application of cellulose nanofibrils as functional biomaterials” at the 2019 International Conference on Eco-Textile, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China

July

  • Welcome Zhengyang (Jason) Yu joining the SFB lab as undergraduate volunteer. Jason is an undergraduate student in Wood Products Processing at UBC.

June

  • Jiang gave a talk on “Isolation of nanocellulose from biomass via non-traditional routes” at the 2019 TAPPI International Conference on Nanotechnology for Renewable Materials. Chiba, Japan;
  • Jiang was invited to give a talk on “Wood nanotechnologies for water treatment” at the Water & Environment Student Talks, Vancouver, BC.

May

  • Welcome Nancy Carolina Carrillo Enríquez joining the SFB lab as MITACS Globalink undergraduate intern. Nancy is from Tecnológico de Monterrey
  • Jiang taught “Wood Chemistry” course in Nanjing Forestry University

April

  • Jiang gave a talk on “Cellulose nanofibrils as building blocks for advanced structures and applications” at the 257th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Orlando, FL.
  • Welcome Prof. Yuan Chen joining the SFB lab as Visiting Scholar. Yuan is an Assistant Professor at Chinese Academy of Forestry.
  • Congratulations to Dr. Jiang for receiving The Comfort-Optimized Materials for Operational Resilience, Thermal-transport, and Survivability (COMFORTS) Micro-net from National Defense.

March

  • Dr. Jiang’s US Patent on “Nanocellulose aerogels and foams” is filed. https://patents.google.com/patent/US20190309144A1/en

February

  •  Dr. Jiang gave a talk on “Cellulose nanofibrils: adapting nature’s building block for advanced structure and functionality” at PaperWeek Canada, Montreal, ON, Canada.

January

  • Congratulations to Dr. Jiang for receiving seed fund from UBC Materials and Manufacturing Research Institute to work with Core Energy Recovery Solutions;

2018

December

  • Welcome Yuhang Ye joining the SFB lab as a Ph.D. student. Yuhang obtained M.S. degree from Aalto University in 2018. He is also the recipient of UBC Four Year Doctoral Fellowship (4YF).
  • Congratulations to Zhongqi Liu for winning to be one of top 10 graduate students in forestry, China.
  • Congratulations to Dr. Jiang on receiving NSERC Engage grant with Lululemon Athletica Inc.

November

October

  • Welcome Weiye Song joining the SFB lab as undergraduate volunteer. Weiye is a third year undergraduate.
  • Welcome Jungang Jiang joining the SFB lab as visiting PhD student. Jungang is a PhD student at Beijing Forestry University under supervision of Prof. Runcang Sun.
  • Welcome Xiaoshuai Han joining the SFB lab as visiting PhD student. Xiaoshuai is a PhD. Student at Beijing Forestry University under supervision of Prof. Junwen Pu. His major focuses on the Functional Wood Composite.
  • October 5, 2018. Dr. Jiang was invited to give a talk at Lululemon Whitespace Lab, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
  • October 17, 2018. Congratulations to Dr. Jiang on receiving CFI JELF/BCKDF fund for research infrastructure.
  • October 24, 2018. The research from SFB was feature as the cover story in the Branchlines 2018 Fall issue.
  • October 28, 2018. Welcome Dr. Chen Xu joining the SFB lab as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow.

September

  • Welcome Zhongqi Liu joining the SFB lab as undergraduate volunteer.
  • September 28, 2018. Dr. Jiang was invited to give a talk at FPInnovations, Vancouver, BC, Canada

July

June

  • Welcome Sibo Tian joining the SFB lab as undergraduate volunteer.
  • June 13, 2018. Dr. Jiang gave a talk at TAPPI International Conference on Nanotechnology for Renewable Materials. Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
  • June 15, 2018. Dr. Jiang was invited to serve on the TAPPI International Nanotechnology Division Student Committee Career Roundtable.

April

  • April 24, 2018. Dr. Jiang was invited to give a talk at Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China.
  • April 17 2018 Congratulations to Dr. Jiang on receiving his first NSERC Discovery Grant;
  • April 19 2018 Congratulations to Dr. Jiang on receiving research fund from Alberta Innovates on lignin modification;

March

Janunary

  • January 2, 2018. The Sustainable Functional Biomaterials Laboratory Starts.