Scientific program:
Oral and poster presentations will cover the following topics:
- Characterization of cellulose and derivatives
- Surface chemistry of polysaccharides
- Chemical synthesis of cellulose and derivatives
- Functionalization of cellulose
- Cellulosic copolymers
- Biomaterials based on cellulose
- Oxidation of polysaccharides
- Chitin and chitosan
- Solution structure of polysaccharides
- Scattering techniques
- Rheology of polysaccharides
A time schedule and the full program are ready for download.
Lectures:
Fumiaki Nakatsubo | Role-sharing functionalization of cellulose |
Kanji Kajiwara | Conformation of malto-oligosaccharide in side-chains of glycoconjugate polystyrene in aequeous solution |
Yasumitsu Uraki | Fabrication of honeycomb patterned bacterial cellulose |
Junji Sugiyama | Structure and function of cellulose microfibrils in tension wood |
Akira Isogai | TEMPO-mediated oxidation of polysaccharides: its fundamentals and applications |
Seichi Tokura | Physiological function of chitin and chitosan |
Katsuyoshi Nishinari | Rheological and related properties of polysaccharides (xyloglucan, xanthan, methyl cellulose) |
Shin-ichiro Shoda*, T. Kotake, A. Kobayashi | Enzymatic functionalization of oligosaccharides |
Shin-ichiro Nishimura | Synthesis, characterization and functionalization of carbohydrate-based materials |
Yoshiyuki Nishio | Structure, property, and functionalization of cellulosic graft copolymers with aliphatic polyester side-chains |
Dieter Klemm | News from biomaterials based in cellulose |
Herbert Sixta, | Prediction of changes of the molecular weight distribution during degradation of cellulose substrates |
Walther Burchard | Structure of methyl-hydroxypropyl cellulose (MHPC) in the light of different characterization methods |
Bodo Saake*, Martin Zenker, Jürgen Puls | Studies in prehump and main fractions of cellulose-2,5-acetate in acetone |
Pedro Fardim | Chemical microscopy of polysaccharides: from model compounds to cellulosic fibres |
Jurgen Engelhardt | R & D on cellulose derivatives: industrial prospects and needs |
Daniel Samain | Chromatogenic chemistry, a new brand of chemistry for molecular grafting nanotechnology |
Petra Mischnick | Novel possibilities by cationic ring-opening polymerisation of cyclodextrin derivatives: preparation of copolymers with block-like sequences |
Bjorn Stokke | Chitosan as a gene delivery vehicle: Influence of molecular properties on compacting DNA to nanosized particles |
Hans-Peter Fink | Effects of NaOH-urea-solutions on cellulose |
K.Christian Schuster*, Mohammad Abu Rous, Uta Schädel, Peter Hosemann, Christian Teichert | Characterization of cellulose fibres by modern imaging techniques: Fibrillar and pore structure in the dry and wet state |
Paul Kosma*, Antje Potthast, Thomas Rosenau, Rainer Bohrn | Analysis of functional groups in cellulosics |