Innovation Scholarship for Superabsorbent Polymer

The majority of the absorbents currently available are made from petroleum-based materials. But now Ulrica Edlund and Ann-Christine Albertsson, researchers at the KTH School of Chemical Science and Engineering, have produced an effective absorbent made of materials derived from forestry and food industry residues.

“With this technology, raw material for absorbent products can be produced from existing industrial processes in the pulp and food industries,” Edlund explains.

The KTH project received the largest grant sum of the six scholarships granted, with Edlund and Albertsson winning SEK 100,000 ($15,000) for their innovative bio-based superabsorbent.

Since 1983, the City of Stockholm has awarded grants to innovators presenting strong ideas for new and commercially promising products and services.

For more information contact Ulrica Edlund at +46-8-790 76 34 or edlund@polymer.kth.se.

Katarina Ahlfort