{"415661":{"#nid":"415661","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Design of Nanobiomaterial from Renewable Resources Could Increase Applications","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIncreasing emphasis has been placed on the use of renewable resources, to rely less heavily on petroleum and to better utilize global energy needs. However, the lack of rigidity of nature\u0027s materials typically limits their mass production for high-tech applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne promising approach to address this shortcoming is to introduce a composite material reinforced by high purity nanofibers found in nature. Cellulose nanowhiskers (CNWs) could integrate a viable nanofibrous porous candidate, resulting in superior structural diversity and functional versatility for diverse applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EInspired by these fascinating properties of CNWs, a fully cellulose-based composite was designed using CNW reinforcement and oriented morphology. Comparable to carbon nanotubes or Kevlar filler, CNWs introduced significant strength and directional rigidity to the composite even at 0.2% by weight, yet doubled that under a weak magnetic field of 0.3T. A designed green nanobiomaterial with an enhanced microstructure performance could potentially increase the applications of cellulose-based materials in biomimetic design.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor her research in this area, IPST doctoral student Parisa Pooyan received a $1,500 travel award for \u0022Outstanding Poster Presentation\u0022 at the Georgia Tech Research and Innovation Conference in 2011. Her work, titled \u0022Fabrication of a Cellulosic Nancomposite Scaffold with Improved Supermolecular Structure as a Potential Cardiovascular Tissue-Engineered Graft,\u0022 by Parisa Pooyan (ME, MSE), Prof. Rina Tannenbaum (MSE), Prof. Hamid Garmestani (MSE), and Prof. Cyrus Aidun (ME), was among 30 entries selected from 400 applicants.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EParisa previously received top recognition at the Biological Materials Science Symposium in Orlando, Fla., and Best of 2012 TMS Show in All Graduate Materials Divisions. Her recent work also was presented and accepted for publication at the 2012 ISDT conference, titled \u201cDesign of a Nanobiomaterial from Renewable Resources,\u201d by Parisa Pooyan, Prof. Rina Tannenbaum and Prof. Hamid Garmestani, in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EIntegrated Systems, Design \u0026amp; Technology \u2013 Knowledge Transfer in New Technologies,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003ESpringer Book Chapter, 2012 ISDT Conference, Mallorca, Spain.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Redesigned nanofibrils could increase versatility"}],"uid":"27178","created_gmt":"2015-06-17 09:58:31","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:18:41","author":"Amna Jamshad","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-06-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-06-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"415651":{"id":"415651","type":"image","title":"Parisa Pooyan","body":null,"created":"1449254245","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:37:25","changed":"1475895152","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:32","alt":"Parisa Pooyan","file":{"fid":"202510","name":"v7_parisa.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/v7_parisa_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/v7_parisa_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":40547,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/v7_parisa_0.jpg?itok=p-Ge1xXi"}}},"media_ids":["415651"],"groups":[{"id":"372221","name":"Renewable Bioproducts Institute (RBI)"}],"categories":[{"id":"42901","name":"Community"},{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"42911","name":"Education"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2530","name":"application"},{"id":"7547","name":"cellulose"},{"id":"4754","name":"IPST"},{"id":"129141","name":"nanomaterial"},{"id":"93811","name":"RBI"},{"id":"4174","name":"renewable"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39471","name":"Materials"},{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"},{"id":"39491","name":"Renewable Bioproducts"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKelly B. Smith, Marketing \u0026amp; Communication\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["kelly.smith@ipst.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}