Research Opportunities

Ragauskas’ research activities cover a broad field of expertise including:

• Wood Characterization
• Pulping and Bleaching
• Pretreatments for Biofuels
• Fiber Engineering for Enhanced Strength/Bulk Properties
• Green Materials from Extractives, Lignin, Cellulose, and Hemicellulose
• Wood Composites PB, MDF, OSB
• Biological and Thermal routes to BioFuels
• Nano Lignocellulosics
• New Green Superabsorbents
• Characterization of Lignocellulosics
• Photo/thermal Aging Cellulosics

Research Opportunities

1. Defining Kraft Pulping Spectrum for Southern Loblolly Pine
2. Next Generation ECF Bleaching Acacia and Eucalyptus Kraft Pulp
3. Hemicellulose Extraction for Enhanced-Biofuels Production
4. Engineering Pulp Fines into Superabsorbent Hydrogels
5. New Paper and Board Composites
6. Soda Oxygen Pulping Research Studies
7. Improved Superabsorbent Kraft Pulps