People

Leena Pitkänen

Staff Scientist

T107 Bioproducts and Biosystems

Full researcher profile

https://research.aalto.fi/...

leena.pitkanen@aalto.fi

Phone number

+358505259441

Research groups

Biopolymer Chemistry and Engineering, Staff Scientist

Publications

Self-assembly of mixed-linkage glucan hydrogels formed following EG16 digestion

Nicholas G.S. McGregor, Paavo Penttilä, Leena Pitkänen, Pezhman Mohammadi, Maisa Vuorte, Kiyohiko Igarashi, Suvi Arola 2025 Carbohydrate Polymers

Potential of size-exclusion chromatography and asymmetric flow field-flow fractionation in separation and characterization of plant polysaccharides

Leena Pitkänen 2025 Journal of Chromatography A

Self-Adaptive Synthesis of Non-Covalent Crosslinkers while Folding Single-Chain Polymers

Dawei Qi, Xuncheng Shi, Caihong Lin, Ferdinand Holzhausen, Liljeström Ville, Xun Sun, Jinghui Luo, Leena Pitkänen, Ya Zhu, Jessica Rosenholm, Sirpa Jalkanen, Jianwei Li 2024 Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Carbonisation of lignin in the presence of a eutectic salt mixture: Identifying the lignin properties that govern the characteristics of the resulting carbon material

Daria Robertson, Paula Nousiainen, Leena Pitkänen, Inge Schlapp-Hackl, Dmitrii Rusakov, Michael Hummel 2024 Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis

Seasonal dynamics in structural characteristics within bark stems of cultivated willow (Salix sp.) by NMR and time-gated Raman spectroscopy

Jinze Dou, Martin Kögler, Kavindra Kumar Kesari, Leena Pitkänen, Tapani Vuorinen 2023 Green Chemistry

Reinvestigating the concurring reactions in early-stage cellulose pyrolysis by solution state NMR spectroscopy

Lukas Fliri, Chamseddine Guizani, Isaac Yair Miranda-Valdez, Leena Pitkänen, Michael Hummel 2023 Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis

Wood lignocellulosic stabilizers: effect of their characteristics on stability and rheological properties of emulsions

Thao Minh Ho, Felix Abik, Sami Hietala, Estefania Isaza Ferro, Leena Pitkänen, Dennis W. Juhl, Thomas Vosegaard, Petri O. Kilpeläinen, Kirsi S. Mikkonen 2023 Cellulose

Design of Fluoro-Free Surfaces Super-Repellent to Low-Surface-Tension Liquids

William S.Y. Wong, Mariia S. Kiseleva, Shaochen Zhou, Muhammad Junaid, Leena Pitkänen, Robin H.A. Ras 2023 Advanced Materials

Enzymatic modification of oat globulin enables covalent interaction with procyanidin B2

Bei Korpela, Leena Pitkänen, Marina Heinonen 2022 Food Chemistry

Challenges in Synthesis and Analysis of Asymmetrically Grafted Cellulose Nanocrystals via Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization

Gwendoline Delepierre, Katja Heise, Kiia Malinen, Tetyana Koso, Leena Pitkänen, Emily D. Cranston, Ilkka Kilpeläinen, Mauri Kostiainen, Eero Kontturi, Christoph Weber, Justin O. Zoppe, Alistair W.T. King 2021 Biomacromolecules