1 sept 2025
The LEPAMAP-PRODIS group enjoyed a prolific representation at the EPNOE Conference 2025, held in Sundsvall (Sweeden)
There are things that should not be shared: your financial details, your passwords, and your toothbrush. Other things are definitely meant to be shared: your values, your positive experiences, and (unless you are Joey Tribbiani) some food.
Research lies in a compromised situation. On one hand, there is nothing wrong in willing to exploit your innovative methods via patents (which imply delaying, albeit not denying, the publication), trade secrets, or licenses. On the other hand, before you go giving all of your research to an editorial oligopoly that will manage the content of your article till death make them part, you have the chance of sharing it live, with experts, in a positive environment. This is the case of scientific conferences, and the European Polysaccharide Network of Excellence (EPNOE) are really good at organizing them.
This year (2025), the 9th EPNOE International Polysaccharide Conference has been held by the Mid Sweden University, in Sundsvall (Sweden). There you could identified many of the most recognized experts in carbohydrate chemistry and technology of Europe (e.g., Prof. Antje Potthast and her well-deserved EPNOE Scientist Award) and beyond (e.g., Prof. Tajima). The plenary talks, the keynotes, the oral communications, the posters... all of them were worth it. Generally speaking, the quality of the contributions was outstanding. Some of them came from the LEPAMAP-PRODIS research group:
- Marc Delgado-Aguilar: "Cellulose-enabled multiphasic systems: tailoring emulsion stabilization and rheology by an all-in-one approach"
- Roberto J. Aguado: "Removal of Cr(VI) and Cr(III) from water via ionic nanocellulose aerogels"
- Giovana Signori-Iamin: "Processing consistency in high-pressure homogenization as a key factor in energy and quality trade-offs of nanocellulose production"
- Gabriela A. Bastida: "Oxalic acid-functionalized cellulose nanofibers for enhanced CO2 captur in electrospun membranes"
These works highlight the broad variety of applications for which LEPAMAP-PRODIS researchers use cellulose. Sodium is monovalent, magnesium is divalent, Cr(VI) is hexavalent, but cellulose (like our researchers) is extremely polyvalent!
