Title: Nanotechnology for the Forest Products Industry
1Nanotechnology for the Forest Products Industry
by Howard Rosen, Staff, Washington Office Ted
Wegner, Assistant Director, Forest Products
Laboratory USDA Forest Service November 16,
2006
2Presentation Overview
- Nanotechnology overview
- Federal/public perspectives on forest products
- Federal Government integrated role in advancing
nanotechnology in the forest products industry
3Definition of Nanotechnolgy
- Scale 1 nm 100 nm (1 nm 1 billionth or
10-9of a meter) - Creating nanoscale size materials does not mean
nanotechnology is involved - Material must have unique properties (e.g.
electrical, physical, chemical, optical) that are
different that the bulk properties - Achieving those unique properties must be
repeatable and controllable
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5Nanomaterials Opportunities
Nanomaterials offer the potential for
unprecedented material performance that could
- Solve major societal problems
- (e.g. energy, medicine, environment,
manufacturing, communications, computing, and
security) - Energize the economy for decades
- Revitalize existing businesses (e.g. forest
products) - Boost competitiveness globally
- Create entirely new industries
The race for global leadership in nanotechnology
is underway
6Source October 2004 Lux Research Report
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8Cubic feet per capita
Total consumption (million cubic feet)
9The United States is the Largest Producer of
Industrial Wood
Percent of Total World Production
Millions of Cubic Metres
Non-Tropical
Tropical
10Impact of Global Competition
Domestically produced shares of the U.S. market
have declined for most wood products
11Soot
Contains Value
12Cellulose Synthesis and Material Production
Nature Working Across a Length Scale
gt1010!
Cellulose nanofiber bundles
6 Assembly proteins (rosette) which produces
cellulose nanofibers
28nm
www.ita.doc.gov/td/forestprod/
jupiter.phys.ttu.edu/corner/1999/dec99.pdf
Candace Haigler and Larry Blanton, Cellulose
You're surrounded by it, but did you know it was
there?
Source Jeffery Catchmark , Penn State University
13Nanotechnology Wood
Wood / Lignocellulose
- One of the most abundant biological raw
materials-ubiquitous - Nano-fibrilar structure
- Self-assemblycontrolled
- Lignocellulose as a nanomaterial and its interact
with other nanomaterials is largely unexplored - Capacity to be made multifunctional
- New analytical techniques adapted to biomaterials
are beginning to allow us to see new
possibilities - A cornerstone for advancing the biomass-based
renewable sustainable economy
14America Needs a Strong Forest Products Industry
- Outlet for forest biomass that needs to be
removed to reduce fuel load and improve forest
health condition - Forest biomass sales offset the cost of forest
management on public lands - Helps prevent conversion of privately held
forestland to non-forest uses - Makes use of a National strategic asset to
provide jobs, fuel the economy, and meet the
needs of people for material needs
15Nanotechnology can help reinvent the forest
products industry
- Technology is the major driving factor for growth
at every level of an economy and is a key factor
in enabling competitive advantage in the market
place - New, higher profit products, based upon
pioneering, innovative technology creation, are
needed - Lighter weight, stronger, multifunctional
materials from wood - New products
- New markets
- New functionalities
16Federal Role in Nanotechnology RD
- Support sustainable forestry and sustainable
forest products as a positive economic, social,
and ecological force within the Nation - Promote, conduct, and support high risk,
fundamental nanotechnology research - Acquire and maintain state of the art Federal RD
nanotechnology facilities and provide access to
unique and cost effective research facilities and
capacities with other partners to move the US
forest-based economy forward
172003 RD Spending 283 Billion
All RD in the United States
Source National Science Foundation
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19Nanotechnology Workshop For the Forest Products
Industry
- October 17 - 19, 2004
- www.nanotechforest.org
20Nanotechnology RoadmapPriority RD Areas
- Polymer Composites and Nano-Reinforced Materials
- Self-Assembly and Biomimetics
- Cell-Wall Nanotechnology
- Sensors, Processing, and Process Controls
- Analytic Methods for Nanostructure
Characterization
21Nanotechnology Task Group Goals
- Link nanotechnology with other Agenda 2020
platforms through Technology Roadmap - Establish a Brain Trust to identify 3 - 4
priority areas - Organize annual Nanotechnology Conference
- -Focal point for industry / academia /
government
22Agenda 2020 Focus for the Future Meeting the
Challenge of Deployment
Positively Impacting the Environment ?Significant
Reduction in Greenhouse Gases ?Decreased
Ecological Footprint
O2
CO2
Breakthrough Mfg. Technologies ?Major
Manufacturing Cost/Capital
Reduction ?Significant Enhancement in
Product Properties with Existing
Assets ?Substantial Improvement in Energy
Efficiency for Existing Processes
Advancing the Wood Products Revolution ?
Improved Building Systems ? Reduced System Costs
Technologically Advanced Workforce ?From
Workforce to Knowledge Workers in 7 years
23Nanotechnology Deployment Strategies
- Adapt Deploy Existing Nanotechnologies
- Reduces costs by leveraging existing investments
- Shortest time to deployment
- Exploits existing nanotechnology knowledge base
- Adds value and functionality to existing products
- Create Deploy Novel New Nanotechnologies
- Exploits the unique nanoscale components and
properties of wood - Enables new generations of cost effective
products materials - Exploits the full potential of wood as the
material for the 21st Century - Achieves maximum efficiency of material use
24Nano Focus Areas
- Focus Area 1 Improve strength weight
performance - Target
- 40 fewer materials for same performance
- 60 performance with 45 CWF
- Mechanical (bonding ) and optical performances
- Focus Area 2 Forest Nanomaterials
- Liberation and use of nanocellulose
- Other nanomaterials from bio-resource
- Non covalent disassembly/reassembly
nano-fractionalization and nano-catalysis for
separations - Entropic effects in the assembly and disassembly
of nanomaterials in forestry - Focus Area 3 Understanding the control of
water-lignocellulose interaction for modification
of properties - Water removal and in the end product
- Energy cost of water, fiber swell in the presence
of water - Control and manipulation of hydrogen bonding (7
types) - Control of mechanosorptive behavior
- Water repelling, barriers
- Control of degradation
25Nano Focus Areas
- Focus Area 4 - Inorganic-organic nanocomposites
nanoscale surface modification - Paper, MDF, OSB are all composite materials
- Compatibilization of hydrophilic/hydrophobic
materials - Interactions at nano-scale
- Focus Area 5 - Photonics and Electronic/Piezo
properties - 100 Opacity
- Focus Area 6 - Modifications for energy
efficiency Process related - Nano-catalysis in pulping and chemistry
- Low temp pulping
- Nano pores in felts
- Water removal
- Low corrosion materials
26Key Stakeholders
- Forest Products Industry
- Universities
- Federal Departments/Agencies
- NNI/NSET/PCAST/OSTP---OMB
- National Science Foundation
- DOE Basic Sciences
- DOE National Laboratories
- National Institute of Standards Technology
- USDA CSREES
- USDA Forest Service
272007 Nanotechnology Conference
- Knoxville TN, June 13 to 15 2007
- Oak Ridge National Lab tie-in
- Focal point for task force reviews and workshops
- Tappi/ FPS co-managed
- Co-sponsors
- AFPA
- USDA Forest Service
- USDA CSREES
- U Tennessee
- IUFRO
- American Chemical Society
28Thank you for your attention