Self-healing oligomeric lignin-based hydrogels with added functionality Ghent University
This project focusses on the use of the renewable, promising and abundant phenolic lignin biopolymer in the development of self-healing hydrogels with applications in the (bio)medical field. The pulping industry generates huge amounts of lignin as by-product, however, the majority is incinerated to recover bioenergy. Since lignin has a complex and yet not fully understood structure, it is not directly used as a high value reagent. To tackle ...