This workshop will focus on wood and its transport properties in relation to morphology.
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Agenda:
Day 1 (Dec. 15th)
9:00-9:50 Campus tour
I : Water and heat transport @CERMAV conference room
10:00 – 10:30 Philippe MARMOTTAN, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique (LiPhy) : Solving the mystery of embolism repair in the xylem of plants after a period of drought using biomimetic leaves”
10:30 – 10:50 Yoshiharu NISHIYAMA, Centre de Recherche sur les Macromolécules Végétales (Cermav) : Molecular origin of wood swelling
11:00 – 11:40 Philippe COUSSOT, Laboratoire NAVIER (Champs-sur-Marne) : Water diffusion in wood and plant cell walls from MRI studies
11:40 – 12:00 Yi Hien CHIN, Xiaoyi WEI, Joseph GRIL, Institut Pascal (Clermont-Ferrand) : Can delignification reduce the thermal conductivity of wood?
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
13:45 – 14:00 Meeting of thesis jury member
14:45 – Discussion / friendly reception
Day 2 (Dec. 16th)
II : Morpholgy and light transport and shaping @CERMAV conference room
9:00 – 9: 30 Vincent PLACET, FEMTO-ST Institute (Besançon) : Fidelity and Accuracy of the 3D Reconstructed Morphology of Elementary Flax Fiber Using Optical Projection and X-ray Micro-tomography: a Comparative Study
9:30 – 10:00 Bin CHEN, KTH (Sweden) : Optical scattering study of transparent wood: from 3D microstructure generation to optical scattering simulation
10:00 – 10:30 coffee break
10:30 – 10:50 Xiaoyi Wei, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (Japan) : Delignification of softwood and hardwood under room-temperature sodium chlorite treatment after alcoholysis
10:50 – 11:20 Jérémie VIGUIE, LGP2 : Shaping paper through patterned polysaccharide hydrogel printing and drying-induced actuation
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Contact:
Yoshiharu Nishiyama, CNRS Research Director.