Expertise in Bio-based materials

Driving sustainable innovation, the pilot-scale extruder accelerates the development of advanced plastics and bio-based composites, enabling rapid testing, optimisation, and scale-up from lab to production.

With a growing demand for environmentally friendly and sustainable materials, bio-based elastomers are becoming increasingly important in industry and research. Using renewable raw materials such as lignin, a by-product of the forestry industry, allows for replacing fossil fuels in rubber and plast…

Is my idea viable? Which composite materials can be combined for new material properties? How can we make existing production of biocomposites more efficient? The testbed for sustainable composite manufacturing helps you bring your ideas to life.

RISE provides expert knowledge on life cykel analysis and calculation of carbon sequestration potential for long-life wooden buildings and biochar. Biochar provides a long-term carbon sink and the material can be used as soil improvement in agriculture and forest land, in light-weight material for …

Materials with remarkable functionalities can be engineered by integrating active materials into biobased structures. For instance, it is possible to create a sheet of paper that purifies air under sunlight, wood fibres coated with graphene that conduct electricity and heat, or even a piece of wood…

Nanocellulose is a material derived from wood fibres. It is exceptionally strrong on a par with Kevlar. However, in contrast to fossil-based material, nanocellulose is completely renewable. Previously, the production was too energy consuming to make the commercialisation of nanocellulose a viable o…

Depending on where a material or a product is used, the demands on its lifetime varies. In some cases a resistance to degradation is needed and others a full and fast biodegradation is wanted. Today there are several areas of use where it is desirable that the material or product is degraded to a l…

To understand how food and other soft materials can be designed to have desirable and optimal properties, it's necessary to understand the materials at microscopic level. Modeling, simulation and data processing can be used to see the relationship between the microscopic structure of materials and …

Future functional materials and sustainable foods are developed by designing specific material properties.

Our research refines the tree's own glue – lignin – into materials, chemicals and motor fuels. We also develop processes to utilise and refine the large amounts of lignin and other wood polymers that chemical pulp mills and other biorefineries receive as a by-product.