Dr. Kim Nelson from American Process Inc. will present the latest developments in nanocellulose technology, April 26 at 4:30 p.m. in room 114 at the Paper Tricentennial Buildling. Dr. Nelson will be featured in the lecture and seminar series sponsored by RBI and the Student Chapter of TAPPI at Georgia Tech.

Nelson, Vice President of Nanocellulose Technology Development, received her Ph.D. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2007. She has nine-plus years of industry experience with American Process Inc., where she was the lead inventor of API's BioPlus™ nanocellulose technology, U.S. Patent No. 9,187,865.

American Process Inc. is an engineering consulting company serving the forest products industry. The company recently owns a patented cellulosic technologies, AVAP®. With AVAP® Biorefinery technology, American Process Inc. has developed a single, cost-effective IP protected process for production of cellulose nanocrystals (CNC) and cellulose nanofibrils (CNF) along with novel, hydrophobic, lignin coated versions of each.