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Polymer Chemistry 2018
Polymer Sciences
ISSN: 2471-9935
Page 57
March 26-28, 2018
Vienna, Austria
3
rd
Edition of International Conference and Exhibition on
Polymer Chemistry
C
ellulose fibres offer themselves as an efficient platform for
development of bio-based porous matrices, which can target
numerous applications. Either exploiting their supramolecular
arrangement of organized fibrillar stacks within the fibre bulk
for the preparation of a porous platform or breaking down its
hierarchical andmulti-level organization to prepare different kinds
of nanoscaled cellulosic substrates, cellulose substrates offer
a myriad of possibilities. In the presented study, the following
two approaches will be tackled: (i) activation procedures for
enhancement of cellulose fibres’ accessibility and reactivity
through opening and widening of voids on the surface and
internal pores, by disrupting fibrillar aggregates and thus
forming additional available surface and (ii) employing different
nanocellulosic building blocks to create new materials through
templating, with special attention given to fabrication of aerogels
with controlled porosity. Mechanisms of cellulose fibre swelling
and its subsequent influence on the activation of pore systemwill
beelaborateduponandstrategies for structuringof nanocellulosic
substrates, towards obtaining functional porous matrices, will be
presented. Morphological, structural and chemical properties of
modified fibres and newly formed structures were extensively
characterized.
Biography
Silvo Hribernik works as a Scientific Associate at the Faculty of Mechanical
Engineering, University of Maribor. He finished his Graduation in 2005 in the
field of Eco-Textile Engineering and Doctorate in 2010 in the field of Textile
Technology, from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Maribor, Slove-
nia. During this time, he also performed research work as a Visiting Scientist
at Institute of Chemistry in Ljubljana and at the Fraunhofer Institute in Pots-
dam, Germany. Main area of his research is the development of fibre-based
functional materials with implementation of nanotechnology and is com-
prised of several research interests including study of materials’ structure,
synthesis of nano-particles, with special attention to magnetic and conduc-
tive particles, study and development of coating and adsorption processes.
silvo.hribernik@um.siStructuring of cellulose (nano) substrates into functional
porous materials
Silvo Hribernik
1
, Tanja Kos
1
, Božič Mojca
1
, Manja Kurečič
1
and
Karin Stana-Kleinschek
1, 2
1University of Maribor, Slovenia
2Graz University of Technology, Austria
Silvo Hribernik et al., Polym Sci, Volume 4
DOI: 10.4172/2471-9935-C1-008