
Kristiina Oksman
Professor and Head of Subject
Research subject: Wood and Bionanocomposites
Division: Materials Science
Department of Engineering Sciences and Mathematics
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Luleå, E170a
About me
Fields of Expertise
Wood thermoplastic composites
Composites from renewable raw materials
Biocomposites
Biopolymer based nanocomposites
Research
My research interests are composite materials from renewable resources with a focus on
* Composite processing technologies
* Relationship between micro structure and mechanical behavior
* Composites long term properties
I received my PhD from Luleå University of Technology, in Sweden 1997 on wood thermoplastic composites. After a period as project leader at SICOMP (Swedish Institute of Composites) in Piteå, Sweden I was appointed as professor at Polymers and polymer based composites at NTNU 2001 and now as Adjunct professor in the University of Toronto at Faculty of Forestry. I have collaborated with Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, USA since 1994 being a visiting scientist on wood thermoplastic composites during several time periods and also working in a organizing committee on wood fiber thermoplastic composite conference, which is held every second year in Madison. The most important collaboration partners are University of Toronto, Centre for Biocomposites and Biomaterials Processing in Toronto, Canada, Chalmers Technical University, Biopolymer Technology, in Gothenburg, Sweden, Helsinki University, Department of Applied Chemistry and Microbiology in Helsinki, Finland and with Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, USA on wood thermoplastic composites and on bio-nanocomposites.
Teaching
Undergraduate courses:
TMM 4215 Wood Composites; Processing, Properties and Products
Publications
- Nazmus Saadat, Otavio Titton Dias, Shaffiq Jaffer, Jimi Tjong, Kristiina Oksman, Mohini Sain. Anisotropically layered 2D-3D biocarbon-carbon functionality in sustainable high-performance composite for bipolar plates in fuel cell, Renewable Energy 224 (2024) 120155 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2024.120155
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- Völtz Luísa Rosenstock. Linn Berglund and Kristiina Oksman, Use of recycled materials for improved toughness of wood–polymer composites, submitted to Sustainable Materials and Environment
- Yağmur Baş, Linn Berglund, Totte Niittylä, Elisa Zattarin, Daniel Aili, Zeljana Sotra, Ivana Rinklake, Johan Junker, Jonathan Rakar, Kristiina Oksman, Preparation and Characterization of Softwood and Hardwood Nanofibril Hydrogels: Toward Wound Dressing Applications, Biomacromolecules, 2023, 24, 12, 5605–5619 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biomac.3c00596
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- Völtz Luísa Rosenstock. Linn Berglund and Kristiina Oksman, Resource efficient manufacturing process of composite materials: Fibrillation of recycled textiles and their compounding with a thermoplastic polymer, Composites Part A, 175, 2023, 107773.
- Singh S, Patel M, Geng S, Teleman A, Schwendemann D, Maspoch ML, and Oksman K. Effects of orientation on polylactic acid/chitin nanocomposite films achieved via combination of melt and solid-state drawing. Nanomaterials2021, 11, 3308. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11123308
- Hassan M L, Berglund L, Abou Elseouda W S, Hassan E A, Oksman K. Effect of pectin extraction method on properties of cellulose nanofibers isolated from sugar beet pulp, Cellulose 28, (2021), p10905–10920. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-021-04223-9
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- Thomas B, George G, Landström A, Concina I, Das O, Wei J, Geng, S, Vomiero A, Sain M, Oksman K. Biobased graphene quantum dots as surface modifier for carbon aerogels for enhanced electrochemical properties, ACS Applied Energy Materials, 2021, 3, 11, 4699–4710 https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaelm.1c00487
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- Wei J, Ullah Shah F, Johansson Carne L, Geng S, Antzutkin ON, Sain M, Oksman K. Electrospun carbon fibres from various lignin sources for electrochemical applications, ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 2021, 9, 36, 12142–12154 https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.1c03549
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- Pakharenko V, Mukherjee S, Titton Dias OA, Wu C, Manion J, Singh CV, Seferos D, Tjong J, Oksman K, and Sain M. Thermoconformational Behavior of Cellulose Nanofiber Films as a Device Substrate and Their Superior Flexibility and Durability to Glass. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 13, 2021 https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c10589
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- Semeniuk M, Sarshar Z, Gezahegn S, Li Z, Egbedina A, Tjong J, Oksman K, Chin Y-H, and Sain M. Catalytically Transformed Low Energy Intensive 2D-Layered and Single Crystal-Graphitic Renewable Carbon Cathode Conductors, Carbon 183 (2021) 243-250 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2021.06.086
- Antlauf M, Boulanger N, Berglund L, Oksman K, and Andersson O, Thermal Conductivity of Cellulose Fibers in Different Size Scales and Densities. Biomacromolecules 2021, 22, 9, 3800–3809 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biomac.1c00643
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- Patel M, Schwendemann D, Spigno G, Geng S, Berglund L and Oksman K. Functional nanocomposite films of poly(lactic acid) with well-dispersed chitin nanocrystals achieved using a dispersing agent and liquid-assisted extrusion process, Molecules (2021) https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules26154557
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- Berglund L, Nissilä T, Sivaraman D, Komulainen S, Telkki V-V, Oksman K, Seaweed inspired alginate-cellulose nanofiber aerogel for insulation applications, ACS Applied Materials and Interface, 13, 29, 2021, 34899. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c07954
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- Jonasson S, Bünder A, Berglund L, Niittylä T, Oksman K. The effect of high lignin content on oxidative nanofibrillation of wood. Nanomaterials, 2021, 11 (5), 1179 https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11051179
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- Gong S, Maennlein A, Yu Li, Hedlund J, Oksman K, Monolithic Carbon Aerogels from Bioresources and the Application of CO2 Adsorption, Microporous and Mesoporos Materials, 323 (2021) 111236.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micromeso.2021.111236
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- Squinca P, Berglund L, Hanna K, Rakar J, Junker J, Khalaf H, Farinas CS, Oksman K. Multifunctional Ginger Nanofiber Hydrogels with Tunable Absorption: The Potential for Advanced Wound Dressing Applications, Biomacromolecules, 22, 8 (2021) 3202–3215 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesa.2023.107773
- Saadat Nazmus, Jaffer Shaffiq, Tjong Jimi, Oksman Kristiina, Sain Mohini. Enhancing performance of advanced fuel cell design with functional energy materials and process, Journal of Materials Research and Technology, 2023, 26, p. 1723-1735 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmrt.2023.07.2
- Berglund L, Squinca P, Rakar J, Junker J, Starkenberg A, Diamanti M, Sivlér P, Skog M, Oksman K, Self-Assembly of Nanocellulose Hydrogels Mimicking Bacterial Cellulose for Wound Dressing Applications Biomacromolecules. 2023, 24, 5, 2264–2277. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biomac.3c00152
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- Eskilson O, Zattarina E, Berglund L, Oksman K, Hannac K, Rakar J, Sivlér P, Skog M, Rinklak I, Shamash R, Sotra Z, Starkenberg A, Odén M, Wiman E, Khalaf H, Bengtsson T, Junker JPE, Selegård R, Björk EM, Aili D. Nanocellulose composite wound dressings for real-time pH wound monitoring, Materials Today Bio, 19, 2023, 100574. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtbio.2023.100574
- Kumar Patel M, Zaccone M, De Brauwer L, Nair R, Monti M, Martinez-Nogues V, Frache A and Oksman K. Improvement of Poly(Lactic Acid)-Poly(Hydroxy Butyrate) Blend Properties for Use in Food Packaging: Processing, Structure Relationships, Polymers, 2022, 14(23) 5104.
- Semeniuk M, Ng KL, Wang Y, Tjong J, Oksman K, Lu Z-H, Azimi G, Sain M. Design and Fabrication of Low-Cost Renewable Carbon Electrode Materials and their Thermo-Kinetics for Sustainable Energy Storage Applications, Materials Today Sustainability 2022, 20, 10024 https:// doi.org/10.1016/j.mtsust.2022.100245.
- Thomas B, Sain M, Oksman K. Sustainable Carbon Derived from Sulfur-Free Lignins for Functional Electrical and Electrochemical Devices. Nanomaterials, 2022, 12, 3630 https://doi.org/10.3390/nano12203630
- Völtz L, Oksman K, The use of recycled materials towards sustainability: biocomposites manufactured in melt compounding, Composites Meet Sustainability – Proceedings of the 20th European Conference on Composite Materials, ECCM20. 26-30 June, 2022, Lausanne, Switzerland.
- Jonasson S, Bünder A, Berglund L, Niittylä T, Oksman K. Characteristics of Cellulose Nanofibrils from Transgenic Trees with Reduced Expression of Cellulose Synthase Interacting 1, Nanomaterials 2022, 12, 3448. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano12193448
- Patel MK, Hansson F, Geng S, Oksman K. Biopolymer blends of poly(lactic acid) and poly(hydroxybutyrate) and their functionalization with glycerol triacetate and chitin nanocrystals for crystallization and thermal and barrier properties, ACS Appl. Polym. Mater. 2022, 4, 9, 6592–6601. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsapm.2c00967
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- Thomas B, Geng S, Wei J, Lycksam H, Sain M, Oksman K. Effect of ice-templating processing parameters on the electrochemical performance of green carbon aerogels, ACS Applied Nano Materials, 5, 2022, 7954-7966. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.2c01033
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- Thomas RT, Del Río de Vicente JI, Zhang K, Karzarjeddi M, Liimatainen H, Oksman K. Size exclusion and affinity-based removal of nanoparticles with electrospun cellulose acetate membranes infused with functionalized cellulose nanocrystals, Materials & Design, 217 (2022), 110654. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2022.110654
- Völtz LR, Geng S, Teleman A, Oksman K. Influence of Dispersion and Orientation on Polyamide 6 Cellulose Nanocomposites Manufactured Using Liquid-assisted Extrusion, Nanomaterials, 2022. DOI:3390/nano12050818
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- Zaccone M, Patel K M, De Brauwer L, Nair R, Montalbano ML, Monti M, Oksman K. Influence of Chitin Nanocrystals on the Crystallinity and Mechanical Properties of Poly (hydroxy butyrate) Biopolymer, Polymers, 14, 3, (2022), 562 https://doi.org/10.3390/polym14030562
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- Eichhorn SJ, Etale A, Wang J, Berglund LA, Li Y, Ca Y, Chen C, Cranston ED, Johns M, Fang Z, Hu L, Khandelwal M, Lee K-Y, Li G, Oksman K, Pinitsoontorn S, Quero F, Sebastian A, Titirici MM, Xu Z Vignolini S, Frka-Petesic B, Review: Current International Research into Cellulose as a Functional Nanomaterial for Advanced Journal of Materials Science, 57 (2022) 5697.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-022-06903-8
- Pakharenko V, Dias OT, Mukherjee S, Konar S, Chandra Veer Singh, Oksman K, Sain M. Chemical and molecular structure transformations in atomistic conformation of cellulose nanofibers under thermal environment, npj Materials Degradation (2022)6:16; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41529-022-00224-6https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.0c00065
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