Publications by Stefania Bertella

Quantification of Native Lignin Structural Features with Gel-Phase 2D-HSQC0 Reveals Lignin Structural Changes During Extraction

Our ability to study and valorize the lignin fraction of biomass is hampered by the fundamental and still unmet challenge of precisely quantifying native lignin's structural features. Here, we developed a rapid elevated-temperature H-1-C-13 Heteronuclear S ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2024

Biobased surfactant

Jeremy Luterbacher, Songlan Sun, Stefania Bertella, Anastasiia Komarova

The present invention relates to a compound of the general formula (I), and (II)wherein one of R11 and R12 is hydrogen and the other is -CH2-R70, and one of R13 and R14 is hydrogen and the other is -CH2-R71, or wherein one of R11 and R12 is hydrogen and th ...

2024

Biobased surfactant

Jeremy Luterbacher, Songlan Sun, Stefania Bertella, Anastasiia Komarova

The present invention relates to a compound of the general formula (I), (II) and (III), more specifically of formula (Ia), (Ib), (Ic)wherein R11 and R12 or R21 and R22 or R31 and R32 are both hydrogen or form together with CHR50 a cyclic moiety or one of R ...

2024

Integrated Conversion of Lignocellulosic Biomass to Bio-Based Amphiphiles using a Functionalization-Defunctionalization Approach

Esther Amstad, Jeremy Luterbacher, Songlan Sun, Gaia De Angelis, Stefania Bertella, Graham Reid Dick

Concerns over the sustainability and end-of-life properties of fossil-derived surfactants have driven interest in bio-based alternatives. Lignocellulosic biomass with its polar functional groups is an obvious feedstock for surfactant production but its use ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2023

Biobased surfactants

Jeremy Luterbacher, Songlan Sun, Stefania Bertella, Anastasiia Komarova

Compound of the general formula (Ia), (Ib) and (Ic) R50 and R60 are different form each other and are selected from the group consisting of -R70, -ZR70, -Z-OH, -Z-NH2, -Z-SH, -Z-OC(O)R70, -OC(O)R70, - COOH and its corresponding salts, -C(O)NH2, -C(O)NH-R70 ...

2023

Current strategies for industrial plastic production from non-edible biomass

Jeremy Luterbacher, Jean Thierry C Behaghel de Bueren, Lorenz Perry Manker, Stefania Bertella

Realistically replacing petroleum-based plastics will require efficient routes to performance polymers using scalable processes from abundantly available lignocellulosic biomass. We surveyed academic and patent literature for processes in the latest stages ...

2023

Lignin: A Sustainable Antiviral Coating Material

Harm-Anton Klok, Francesco Stellacci, Jeremy Luterbacher, Francesca Olgiati, Alice Boarino, Heyun Wang, Stefania Bertella

Transmission of viruses through contact with contaminated surfaces is an important pathway for the spread of infections. Antiviral surface coatings are useful to minimize such risks. Current state-of-the-art approaches toward antiviral surface coatings eit ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Extraction and Surfactant Properties of Glyoxylic Acid-Functionalized Lignin

Esther Amstad, Jeremy Luterbacher, Gaia De Angelis, Stefania Bertella

The amphiphilic chemical structure of native lignin, composed by a hydrophobic aromatic core and hydrophilic hydroxy groups, makes it a promising alternative for the development of bio-based surface-active compounds. However, the severe conditions traditio ...

2022

Extraction and controlled functionalization of lignin for materials applications

Stefania Bertella

Lignin is a renewable aromatic polymer that due to its abundance and unique chemical structure is a promising candidate to replace aromatic materials that are currently sourced from fossil oil. The same structure of lignin poses however drawbacks for its v ...

EPFL2022

Renewable monomer and polymer thereof

Jeremy Luterbacher, Lorenz Perry Manker, Stefania Bertella, Graham Reid Dick

Described is a compound having the structure (I), (II) or (V), Formulae(I), (II), (V), wherein R1 is -H, -CH2OH or -CH(OH)CH2OH; R2 is -H, -OH, or -CH2OH; R3 is -H, -OH, or -CH2OH; n is 0 or 1; p is 0 or 1; R10 is hydrogen or a hydrocarbon moiety with 1 to ...

2021