TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schmidt, Aaron C.
A1  - Turgut, Hatice
A1  - Le, Dao
A1  - Beloqui, Ana
A1  - Delaittre, Guillaume
T1  - Making the best of it: nitroxide-mediated polymerization of methacrylates via the copolymerization approach with functional styrenics
JF  - Polymer Chemistry
N2  - The SG1-mediated solution polymerization of methyl methacrylate (MMA) and oligo(ethylene glycol) methacrylate (OEGMA, Mₙ = 300 g mol⁻¹) in the presence of a small amount of functional/reactive styrenic comonomer is investigated. Moieties such as pentafluorophenyl ester, triphenylphosphine, azide, pentafluorophenyl, halide, and pyridine are considered. A comonomer fraction as low as 5 mol% typically results in a controlled/living behavior, at least up to 50% conversion. Chain extensions with styrene for both systems were successfully performed. Variation of physical properties such as refractive index (for MMA) and phase transition temperature (for OEGMA) were evaluated by comparing to 100% pure homopolymers. The introduction of an activated ester styrene derivative in the polymerization of OEGMA allows for the synthesis of reactive and hydrophilic polymer brushes with defined thickness. Finally, using the example of pentafluorostyrene as controlling comonomer, it is demonstrated that functional PMMA-b-PS are able to maintain a phase separation ability, as evidenced by the formation of nanostructured thin films.
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1039/C9PY01458F
VL  - 11
IS  - 2
SP  - 593
EP  - 604
PB  - Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
CY  - Cambridge
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Tippkötter, Nils
A1  - Roth, Jasmine
T1  - Purified Butanol from Lignocellulose – Solvent‐Impregnated Resins for an Integrated Selective Removal
JF  - Chemie Ingenieur Technik
N2  - In traditional microbial biobutanol production, the solvent must be recovered during fermentation process for a sufficient space-time yield. Thermal separation is not feasible due to the boiling point of n-butanol. As an integrated and selective solid-liquid separation alternative, solvent impregnated resins (SIRs) were applied. Two polymeric resins were evaluated and an extractant screening was conducted. Vacuum application with vapor collection in fixed-bed column as bioreactor bypass was successfully implemented as butanol desorption step. In course of further increasing process economics, fermentation with renewable lignocellulosic substrates was conducted using Clostridium acetobutylicum. Utilization of SIR was shown to be a potential strategy for solvent removal from fermentation broth, while application of a bypass column allows for product removal and recovery at once.
KW  - Biofuel
KW  - Biorefinery
KW  - Butanol
KW  - Clostridium acetobutylicum
KW  - Lignocellulose
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1002/cite.202000200
SN  - 1522-2640
N1  - Corresponding author: Nils Tippkötter
VL  - 92
IS  - 11
SP  - 1741
EP  - 1751
PB  - Wiley-VCH
CY  - Weinheim
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wardoyo, Arinto Y.P.
A1  - Noor, Johan A.E.
A1  - Elbers, Gereon
A1  - Schmitz, Sandra
A1  - Flaig, Sascha T.
A1  - Budianto, Arif
T1  - Characterizing volcanic ash elements from the 2015 eruptions of bromo and raung volcanoes, Indonesia
JF  - Polish Journal of Environmental Studies
N2  - The volcanic eruptions of Mt. Bromo and Mt. Raung in East Java, Indonesia, in 2015 perturbed volcanic materials and affected surface-layer air quality at surrounding locations. During the episodes, the volcanic ash from the eruptions influenced visibility, traffic accidents, flight schedules, and human health. In this research, the volcanic ash particles were collected and characterized by relying on the detail of physical observation. We performed an assessment of the volcanic ash elements to characterize the volcanic ash using two different methods which are aqua regia extracts followed by MP-AES and XRF laboratory test of bulk samples. The analysis results showed that the volcanic ash was mixed of many materials, such as Al, Si, P, K, Ca, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Ni, and others. Fe, Si, Ca, and Al were found as the major elements, while the others were the trace elements Ba, Cr, Cu, Mn, P, Mn, Ni, Zn, Sb, Sr, and V with the minor concentrations. XRF analyses showed that Fe dominated the elements of the volcanic ash. The XRF analysis showed that Fe was at 35.40% in Bromo and 43.00% in Raung of the detected elements in bulk material. The results of aqua regia extracts analyzed by MP-AES were 1.80% and 1.70% of Fe element for Bromo and Raung volcanoes, respectively.
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.15244/pjoes/99101
SN  - 2083-5906
VL  - 29
IS  - 2
SP  - 1899
EP  - 1907
PB  - HARD
CY  - Olsztyn
ER  -