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4.10.2022
ΒΙΟΜΑC at the 9th IUPAC International Conference on Green Chemistry
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The 9th IUPAC International Conference on Green Chemistry (ICGC) took place in Athens, Greece, on 5th – 9th September 2022. The Conference was organized by the Association of Greek Chemists (AGC) in collaboration with the IUPAC Interdivisional Committee on Green Chemistry for Sustainable Development (ICGCSD), and was chaired by Prof. Kostas Triantafyllidis (AUTH, Validation Technology Manager of BIOMAC project). It was endorsed by IUPAC and was held under the auspices and recognition of EuChemS, ACS, the Hellenic Green Chemistry Network and the Departments of Chemistry of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. BIOMAC was one of the supporters of the 9th ICGC, with an audience of 350 physical kai 70 virtual participants.


Prof. Dimitrios Bikiaris (AUTH, BIOMAC project Coordinator) gave a keynote oral presentation on Wednesday morning, with the title "European Sustainable Biobased Nanomaterials Community (BIOMAC): From biomass pretreatment for monomers and additives extraction to the synthesis of biobased composites".
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To disseminate the results of Pilot Line 3 (Hydrogenation of sugars to sugar alcohols and glycols) of the BIOMAC project, Kyriazis Rekos presented the poster "Glucose hydrogenation/hydrogenolysis towards sugar alcohols over Pt/Ru catalysts supported on micro/mesoporous activated carbon" and prof. Triantafyllidis the poster "European Sustainable BIO-based nanoMAterials Community (BIOMAC)".


In addition, Dr Tobias Robert from FH-WKI gave an oral presentation containing results of Test Case 1 of BIOMAC, with the title “: Use of bio-based resists derived from renewable monomers for sustainable 3D fabrication of automotive components through two photon polymerization”.


Last but not least, Dr Agata Olszewska-Widdrat presented the work of ATB – PL7 on Lactic and succinic acid production from lignocellulosic biomass, which are the basic mononers for the synthesis of biobased polymers for BIOMAC’s test cases. These monomers are being supplied to other pilot lines (e.g., resin production pilot line of FH-WKI, reactive extrusion pilot line of AIMPLAS) for polymerization and will be tested in automotive, agricultural and food packaging applications.
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Finally, Emanuela Bellinetto (POLIMI) presented the posters with the titles “Phenol-formaldehyde resins based on lignin functionalized with succinic anhydride” and “Polyolefin-lignin blends: Assessing lignin properties on post-consumer recycled polypropylene”.


The teams of AUTH and FH-WKI are grateful for the opportunity to showcase BIOMAC to stakeholders from academia, research, industry, NGOs, policy makers and society, to exchange and disseminate knowledge and ideas that promote the concept of OITBs and nano-enabled biomaterials!