On Laccase-Catalyzed Polymerization of Biorefinery Lignin Fractions and Alignment of Lignin Nanoparticles on the Nanocellulose Surface <i>via</i> One-Pot Water-Phase Synthesis
Luyao Wang, Liping Tan, Liqiu Hu, Xiaoju Wang, Rajesh Koppolu, Teija Tirri, Bas van Bochove, Petri Ihalainen, Liji Sobhana Seleenmary Sobhanadhas, Jukka Seppälä, Stefan Willför, Martti Toivakka, Chunlin Xu
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Business Finland Project (43674/31/2020) is acknowledged for the research funding to the current work. L.T. would like to thank the financial support to conduct research mobility at Åbo Akademi University (ÅAU) provided by Johan Gadolin Scholar mobility funding programme. Both L.W. and L.H. would like to acknowledge the financial support from the China Scholarship Council (Student ID 201804910639 for L.W. and Student ID 201908120107 for L.H.) to their doctoral study at ÅAU, Finland. Jarl Hemming and Dr. Annika Smeds are greatly acknowledged on their help with GPC and Py/GC–MS analysis. Qingbo Wang is thanked for his work with DMA measurements. Dr. Andrey Pranovich is thanked for discussing while initializing the project. CH-Bioforce Oy (Espoo, Finland) is thanked for providing birch and spruce ALs. This work is also part of activities within the Johan Gadolin Process Chemistry Centre (PCC) at ÅAU. This work also made use of Aalto University Bioeconomy Facilities.