🎓Investigating the Antioxidant Activity of Kraft Lignin using Off-line 2D Chromatography

Doctoral student Xuan Tung Do is investigating how to turn a centuries-old waste product into a material with superpowers. Many everyday objects are still manufactured in some form from fossil raw materials such as petroleum. As these raw materials are only available in limited quantities, scientists are searching for sustainable alternatives. To this end, doctoral student Xuan Tung Do is investigating a waste product from the paper industry: lignin. Lignin is a complex biopolymer and must first be characterised using various analytical and statistical methods before it can be used as a direct substitute for petroleum. As part of his doctoral thesis, Do is determining the molecular weight of the biopolymer using various spectroscopic and 1D and 2D chromatographic methods.