Output – ESR’s

PhD Publications

The underneath articles were published until now (24-03-2025). All these articles acknowledge the EU funding/ BBVC project.

  1. A Comparison of Laboratory and Industrial Processes Reveals the Effect of Dwell Time and UV Pre-Exposure on the Behavior of Two Polymers in a Disintegration Trial – Simon Schick, Robert Groten, Andreas Weinberger, Gunnar H. Seide – Polymers – DOI: 10.3390/polym16121650 – Repository link: https://doi.org/10.34894/N7AQQQ
  1. Effect of Fiber Cross-Sectional and Surface Properties on the Degradation of Biobased Polymers – Simon Schick, Andreas Weinberger, Robert Groten, Gunnar H. Seide – Polymers – DOI: 10.3390/polym16213096 – Repository link: https://doi.org/10.34894/HRKHDQ
  1. Performance Spectrum of Home-Compostable Biopolymer Fibers Compared to a Petrochemical Alternative – Simon Schick, Robert Groten, Gunnar H. Seide – Polymers – DOI: 10.3390/polym15061372 – Repository link: https://doi.org/10.34894/8RBFZH
  1. Sustainable Bombyx mori’s silk fibroin for biomedical applications as a molecular biotechnology challenge: A review – Lara Bitar, Benedetta Isella, Francesca Bertella, Carolina Bettker Vasconcelos, Jules Harings, Alexander Kopp, Yvonne van der Meer, Ted J. Vaughan, Luisa Bortesi – International Journal of Biological Macromolecules – DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2024.130374 – Repository link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38408575/
  1. Manufacturing of Anisotropic Protein‐Based Scaffolds to Precisely Mimic Native‐Tissue Mechanics – Amanda Schmidt, Alexander Greenhalgh, Stefan Jockenhoevel, Alicia Fernández‐Colino, Martin Frydrych – Advanced Materials Technologies – DOI: 10.1002/admt.202400946 – Repository link: https://publications.rwth-aachen.de/record/996784
  1. Impact of Weak Organic Acids as Coagulants on Tailoring the Properties of Cellulose Aerogel Beads – Diogo Costa, Barbara Milow, Kathirvel Ganesan – Chemistry/ A European Journal – DOI: 10.1002/chem.202401794 – Repository link: https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/3cvKmNfJ1n319OV
  1. Novel Silk Fibroin Based Bilayer Scaffolds for Bioabsorbable Internal Biliary Stenting – Benedetta Isella, Nourhan Hassan, Aleksander Drinic, Roman M. Eickhoff, Nadja Kröger, Ted J. Vaughan, Alexander Kopp – Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part B: Applied Biomaterials – DOI: 10.1002/jbm.b.35499 – Repository link: 10.5281/zenodo.15025744 (accessible once the review in the EU Open Research Repository is completed)
  1. Enantioselective High‐Throughput Assay Showcased for the Identification of (R)‐ as well as (S)‐Selective Unspecific Peroxygenases for C−H Oxidation – Alexander Swoboda, Lukas Johannes Pfeifenberger, Zerina Duhović, Moritz Bürgler, Isabel Oroz‐Guinea, Klara Bangert, Florian Weißensteiner, Lena Parigger, Katharina Ebner, Anton Glieder, Wolfgang Kroutil – Angewandte Chemie – DOI: 10.1002/ange.202312721 – Supporting Information link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/downloadSupplement?doi=10.1002%2Fange.202312721&file=ange202312721-sup-0001-misc_information.pdf
  1. Preparative regio- and stereoselective α-hydroxylation of medium chain mono- and dicarboxylic fatty acids – Klara Bangert, Alexander Swoboda, Stephan Vrabl, Haris Rudalija, Mattia Lazzarotto, Stefan Payer, Anton Glieder, Christian A. M. R. van Slagmaat, Stefaan M. A. De Wildeman, Wolfgang Kroutil – Green Chemistry – DOI: 10.1039/d3gc04593e – Supporting Information link: https://www.rsc.org/suppdata/d3/gc/d3gc04593e/d3gc04593e1.pdf
  1. How accurate is plastic end-of-life modeling in LCA? Investigating the main assumptions and deviations for the end-of-life management of plastic packaging – Felicitas Pellengahr, Ali Ghannadzadeh, Yvonne van der Meer – Sustainable Production and Consumption – DOI: 10.1016/j.spc.2023.09.014 – Supporting Information link: https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=https%3A%2F%2Fars.els-cdn.com%2Fcontent%2Fimage%2F1-s2.0-S235255092300221X-mmc1.docx&wdOrigin=BROWSELINK
  1. Modeling marine microplastic emissions in Life Cycle Assessment: characterization factors for biodegradable polymers and their application in a textile case study – Felicitas Pellengahr, Elena Corella-Puertas, Valérie Mattelin, Nadim Saadi, Francesca Bertella, Anne-Marie Boulay, Yvonne van der Meer – Frontiers in Toxicology – DOI: 10.3389/ftox.2025.1494220 – Supporting Information link: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/ftox.2025.1494220/full#supplementary-material
  1. Organizational change towards the circular economy: A systematic review of the literature – Sophie Graessler, Hannes Guenter, Simon B. de Jong, Klaus Henning – International Journal of Management Reviews – DOI: 10.1111/ijmr.12367 – Supporting Information link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/downloadSupplement?doi=10.1111%2Fijmr.12367&file=ijmr12367-sup-0001-Appendix-1.pdf |

  2. Overcoming Challenges in the Commercialization of Biopolymers: From Research to Applications—A Review – Simon Schick, Julia Heindel, Robert Groten and Gunnar H. Seide – Polymers – DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/polym16243498 – Link: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4360/16/24/3498

PhD Theses

In July 2024, Klara Bangert successfully defended her PhD thesis titled: Biocatalytic access to novel functional building blocks/materials!
Thanks to academic supervisor Wolfgang Kroutil from the University of Graz and the whole research group for support, input, and the great working atmosphere! And thanks to Stefaan De Wildeman, Tom Gheysens, Jolande Celis, and the whole B4Plastics team!

After three years of work in the Biobased Value Circle Network, Benedetta Isella, who did her PhD as a collaboration between Fibrothelium GmbH and the University of Galway, defended her thesis in September 2024. The thesis entitled “Development, Production, and Prediction of Fibroin-Based Degradable Implants” presenting all the work done on the processing of silk fibroin. For those interested, you can read more about the Thesis of Benedetta Isella (The thesis is currently under embargo to publish the papers contained, but the embargo will be lifted in Autumn 2025.)

At the beginning of December, Diogo Manuel Costa successfully defended his PhD thesis at the University of Cologne, after more than three years of work at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), in Germany, and Keey Aerogel, in France. His thesis, entitled “Biobased Aerogels: Form Lab to Technical Scale” focused on the extraction of cellulose from agriculture biomass waste, its conversion into cellulose aerogels, and their upscaling using various technologies to achieve different shapes (beads, sheets, fibers). For those interested, you can read more about it here: https://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/74642/

Conference Abstracts

  • Synthesis of Cellulose Aerogel Fibers from Agricultural Residues and Considerations on its Continuous Production – D Costa, S Schick, G Seide, B Milow – 31st European Biomass Conference and Exhibition, 2023 – Link: https://elib.dlr.de/195587/
  • Upscaling of Cellulose Extraction from Hemp Bast Fibers and Production of Cellulose Aerogel Beads: An Industrial Case – Costa, Diogo and Philippe, Kanda and Milow, Barbara (2023) – 3rd International Conference on Aerogels for Biomedical and Environmental Applications, 2023 – Link: https://elib.dlr.de/196618/
  • Impact of the anions in the production of monolithic cellulose aerogels – Costa, Diogo and Goncalves, Bruno and Ganesan, Kathirvel and Milow, Barbara (2022) – 6th International Seminar on Aerogels. 6th International Seminar on Aerogels, 2022-09-28 – 2022-09-30, Hamburg, Germany – Link: https://elib.dlr.de/188885/
  • Synthesis of cellulose aerogel beads from agricultural residues – Costa, Diogo and Ganesan, Kathirvel and Milow, Barbara (2022) – 5th International EPNOE Junior Scientist Meeting 2022. 5th International EPNOE Junior Scientist Meeting 2022, 2022-09-08 – 2022-09-09, Aveiro – Link: https://elib.dlr.de/188402/
  • Highly Porous Materials of Cellulose from Agricultural Residues – Costa, Diogo and Ganesan, Kathirvel and Sahraeian, Razmehr and Deyholos, Michael and Pakpour, Sepideh and Milow, Barbara (2021) – 7th International Polysaccharide Conference – Book of Abstracts, p. 75. EPNOE. 7th International Polysaccharide Conference, 2021-10-11 – 2021-10-15, Nantes, France – Link: https://elib.dlr.de/145560/
  • Modeling Environmental Impacts of Plastics in Life Cycle Assessment: Effects of Biodegradation – Felicitas Pellengahr, Elena Corella-Puertas, Valérie Mattellin, Nadim Saadi, Anne-Marie Boulay, Yvonne van der Meer – 2024/5/5, SETAC Europe 34th Annual Meeting – Link: https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/en/publications/modeling-environmental-impacts-of-plastics-in-life-cycle-assessme
  • Modelling environmental impact of plastics: effects of biodegradation – Felicitas Pellengahr, Elena Corella-Puertas, Valérie Mattellin, Anne-Marie Boulay, Yvonne van der Meer – 2023/8/18, Congress International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry – Link: https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/en/publications/modelling-environmental-impact-of-plastics-effects-of-biodegradat
  • LCAs for plastics end-of-life: Limitations and potential of a powerful tool – Felicitas Pellengahr, Yvonne van der Meer – 2022, 2nd International Symposium on Plastics Technology – Link: https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/en/publications/lcas-for-plastics-end-of-life-limitations-and-potential-of-a-powe
  • Going Circular in a Linear Business Context: Squaring the Circle? – Sophie Felicia Graessler, Hannes Guenter and Simon Barend De Jong – Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, 2024 – Link: https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/AMPROC.2024.17471abstract