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SUMMARY:IMX Seminar Series - Wood materials – future potentials and limi
 tations
DTSTART:20231204T131500
DTEND:20231204T141500
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Ingo Burgert\, ETHZ\nRenewability and CO2-storing capaci
 ty of the resource wood have triggered increasing scientific interest in t
 he development of functional wood materials. Exciting opportunities arise 
 from the modification and functionalization of wood by taking advantage of
  its hierarchical structure. Wood provides a porous and anisotropic struct
 ure with excellent mechanical properties making it an eligible biomaterial
  to develop high-performance composites and hybrid materials. Wood treatme
 nts can lead to wood materials with improved properties and/or new functio
 ns. Recent concepts and approaches to obtain new wood materials will be pr
 esented. Additional focus will be laid on predicted changes in resource pr
 ovision and fields of application of wood in the future\, which will be di
 scussed with a view to potentials and limitations of wood in becoming a ke
 y resource of a net zero society.\n\nBio: Ingo Burgert has been a Professo
 r for Wood Materials Science at ETH Zurich and Empa\, since 2011. He studi
 ed wood science and technology at the University of Hamburg\, Germany and 
 obtained a doctoral degree at the same university in 2000. From 2000 to 20
 03 he worked as a postdoc at the Institute of Physics and Materials Scienc
 e of BOKU\, the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienn
 a\, Austria. From 2003 to 2011\, Ingo Burgert was research group leader of
  the group “Plant Biomechanics and Biomimetics” at the Max Planck Inst
 itute of Colloids and Interfaces in the Department of Biomaterials\, Potsd
 am\, Germany.
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