Lucian Lucia
Bio
– Professor, NC State (USA)
– Fulbright Scholar (Brazil)
Twitter | @WolfPackBark
Research Group | http://www4.ncsu.edu/~lalucia, http://www.ncsu.edu/chemistry/people/lal.html
Open Access Publication Site | http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lucian_Lucia/
BioResources | http://www.bioresources.com
Dr. Lucian A. Lucia currently serves as Professor in the Departments of Forest Biomaterials (Wood & Paper Science) and Chemistry and as a faculty in the programs of Fiber & Polymer Science and Environmental Sciences at North Carolina State University. His laboratory, The Laboratory of Soft Materials & Green Chemistry, probes fundamental materials science topics focused on the green chemistry of renewable polymers. He received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Florida for modeling photoinduced charge separation states of novel Rhenium (I)-based organometallic ensembles as a first order approximation of photosynthesis.
He began his professional career as an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Paper Science and Technology at the Georgia Institute of Technology examining the mechanism of singlet oxygen’s chemistry with lignin & cellulose.
A large part of his recent work has been focused on the chemical modification of cellulosics for biomedical applications.
He teaches Forest Biomaterials Chemistry (WPS 723), From Papyrus to Plasma Screens: Paper & Society (PSE 220), Green Chemistry (PSE/CH 335), and the FB Graduate Student Seminar Series (WPS 590/790) at NCSU while teaching Wood Chemistry and Green Chemistry at Qilu University of Technology in PR China.
He has co-founded and co-edits an open-access international research journal, BioResources, that is dedicated to original research articles, reviews, and editorials on the fundamental science & engineering and advanced applications of lignocellulosic materials.
Area(s) of Expertise
Green chemistry, fiber and polymer science, environmental sciences, materials science, renewable polymers, chemical modification of cellulosics for biomedical applications
Publications
- A Factorial Design Assessment of Marine Exoskeleton-Based Bio-sorption of Relevant Electroplating Metals , Universal Journal of Green Chemistry (2024)
- Alkaline pretreatment and soda pulping of genetically improved hemp , INDUSTRIAL CROPS AND PRODUCTS (2024)
- Development of multifunctional sustainable packaging from acetylated cellulose micro-nanofibrils (CMNF) , CARBOHYDRATE POLYMER TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS (2024)
- Transforming low-quality cotton fibers into dye adsorbents , ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS (2024)
- A critical review of existing and emerging technologies and systems to optimize solid waste management for feedstocks and energy conversion , Matter (2023)
- Cellulose/nanocellulose superabsorbent hydrogels as a sustainable platform for materials applications: A mini-review and perspective , Carbohydrate Polymers (2023)
- Comparison and assessment of methods for cellulose crystallinity determination , Chemical Society Reviews (2023)
- Computational and experimental insights into the molecular architecture of water-cellulose networks , Matter (2023)
- Conductive Polymer/Nanocellulose Composites as a Functional Platform for Electronic Devices: A Mini-Review , POLYMER REVIEWS (2023)
- Current state-of-the-art review of nanotechnology-based therapeutics for viral pandemics: Special attention to COVID-19 , NANOTECHNOLOGY REVIEWS (2023)