Herbert Sixta
Professor Sixta Herbert's research interests include the following:
- Pulping chemistry and technology with special emphasis on dissolving pulps
- Cellulose chemistry
- Chemistry of the fractionation of biomass, in particular lignocellulosic biomass
- Valorization of cellulose to regenerated cellulose fibers
- Valorization of cellulose to cellulose derivatives
- Dry-jet wet spinning of cellulose solutions
- Valorization of hemicelluloses as furanic compounds
- Isolation and characterization of lignin. Valorization of lignin to monoaromatic structures, to bio-oil and as co-polymer in composite material with cellulose
- Cellulose textile chemistry
- Novel dying technologies for cellulose-based textiles.
- Novel pathways of functionalization of cellulose-based textiles
- Chemical and mechanical purification of pulps
- Oxygen delignification of unbleached pulps
- TCF- and ECF bleaching techniques
- Organosolv fractionation methods with particular emphasis on GVL/water pulping of hardwood
Full researcher profile
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Honors and awards
European Paper Recycling Award 2015 European Recovered Paper Council, EU
Award or honor granted for a specific work
Department of Forest Products Technology
Jan 2015
Best Poster Award - Workshop on Cellulose Renegated Fibres University of Karlstad, Sweden
Award or honor granted for a specific work
Department of Forest Products Technology
Jan 2007
Knight, First Class, of the Order of the White Rose of Finland
Award or honor granted for academic career
Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems
Jan 2016
Global Change Award
Award or honor granted for academic career
Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems
Feb 2016
Mitscherlich Medaille from Zellcheming, Germany, for merits in dissolving pulp technology
Award or honor granted for academic career
Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems
Jan 2006
DIA Design Intelligence Award, China
Ioncell project awarded with DIA Design Intelligence Award (shortlisted among 22 best, 6.-8.5. Grand final), Hangzhou, China http://en.di-award.org, 10 000 euros
Invitation or ranking in competition
Department of Design
May 2018
Ioncell project selected for Designmuseum Habitare Collection
Award or honor granted for a specific work
Department of Design
Sep 2019
Publications
Conversion of bleached soda bagasse paper-grade pulp to dissolving-grade pulp using different hemicelluloses removing post-treatments with emphasis on IONCELL-P process
Kajal Moradian Gilan, Sahab Hedjazi, Huy Quang Lê, Ali Abdolkhani, Sara Ceccherini, Mira Viljanen, Herbert Sixta
2022
Holzforschung
High-purity cellulose production from birch wood by γ-valerolactone/water fractionation and IONCELL-P process
Shokoufeh Shokri, Sahab Hedjazi, Huy Quang Lê, Ali Abdulkhani, Herbert Sixta
2022
Carbohydrate Polymers
Application-Related Consideration of the Thermal Stability of [mTBDH][OAc] Compared to Amidine-Based Ionic Liquids in the Presence of Various Amounts of Water
Inge Schlapp-Hackl, Joanna Witos, Krishna Ojha, Petri Uusi-Kyyny, Ville Alopaeus, Herbert Sixta
2022
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
On the chemical interactions of the biomass processing agents gamma-valerolactone (GVL) and N-methylmorpholine-N-oxide (NMMO)
Paul Jusner, Markus Bacher, Hubert Hettegger, Huy Quang Le, Antje Potthast, Herbert Sixta, Thomas Rosenau
2021
Green Chemistry
Cellulose-lignin composite fibres as precursors for carbon fibres. Part 1 – Manufacturing and properties of precursor fibres
Mikaela Trogen, Nguyen Duc Le, Daisuke Sawada, Chamseddine Guizani, Tainise Vergara Lourençon, Leena Pitkänen, Herbert Sixta, Riddhi Shah, Hugh O'Neill, Mikhail Balakshin, Nolene Byrne, Michael Hummel
2021
Carbohydrate Polymers
Process-dependent nanostructures of regenerated cellulose fibres revealed by small angle neutron scattering
Daisuke Sawada, Yoshiharu Nishiyama, Thomas Röder, Lionel Porcar, Hilda Zahra, Mikaela Trogen, Herbert Sixta, Michael Hummel
2021
Polymer
Identification of cellulose textile fibers
Mikko Mäkelä, Marja Rissanen, Herbert Sixta
2021
Analyst
Towards regenerated cellulose fibers with high toughness
Kaniz Moriam, Daisuke Sawada, Kaarlo Nieminen, Michael Hummel, Yibo Ma, Marja Rissanen, Herbert Sixta
2021
Cellulose
Spinneret geometry modulates the mechanical properties of man-made cellulose fibers
Kaniz Moriam, Daisuke Sawada, Kaarlo Nieminen, Yibo Ma, Marja Rissanen, Nicole Nygren, Chamseddine Guizani, Michael Hummel, Herbert Sixta
2021
Cellulose
Hydrophobization of the Man-Made Cellulosic Fibers by Incorporating Plant-Derived Hydrophobic Compounds
Kaniz Moriam, Marja Rissanen, Daisuke Sawada, Michael Altgen, Leena-Sisko Johansson, Dmitry Victorovitch Evtyugin, Chamseddine Guizani, Michael Hummel, Herbert Sixta
2021
ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering