Contact person
Jenny Bengtsson
Forskare
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Tandem Forest Values
Bio-based carbon fibers have great potential to generate new value chains within lightweight composites. In the past, great progress in the field has been made, independently, in both Sweden and Finland. In this project, RISE, Chalmers and Aalto University are collaborating to evaluate lignin and cellulose to make carbon fibers.
Commercial carbon fibers (CF) are currently fossil-based, with both a high carbon footprint and a high price. CFs made completely from biobased material with a low climate impact is an area of research that have seen significant breakthroughs during the last years.
This project digs into fundamental research questions to deepen the understanding on how variations of the raw materials affect the fibers and the conversion, and how the process and the CFs, can be further optimized. A special focus will be on unravelling interesting synergetic effects on combining cellulose and lignin. By combining competences and equipment in both countries, new knowledge, and further improvement of biobased CFs is expected to be achieved.
Summary
Project name
Tandem Forest Values
Status
Active
RISE role in project
Deltagare
Project start
Duration
2 år
Total budget
9 MSEK
Funders
Formas
Project members
Supports the UN sustainability goals
9. Industry, innovation and infrastructure
