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Mu-Rong Wang

PhD project

 Functionalization and performance of nanocellulosic filaments

Main supervisor: Daniel Söderberg
Co-supervisor: Anastasia Riazanova, Tomas Rosén
Planned year of defense: 2025

Research interests

I am working currently on chemical and mechanical modification on nanocellulose fibrils(CNFs) in order to tune the CNF network in the flow and to spin strong bio-based filaments. From CNF dispersion to applications:

  • Trying out different sources of cellulose and process them into CNFs. Characterising the differences between the single fibres and the spinning filaments.
  • Studying the correlations between the dynamic behaviour of the CNF network in the flow to the spinnability of CNF dispersions.
  • Conditioning the drying process of bio-based filaments and the interactions between the CNF fibres.

Background

PhD student 2021 -
KTH, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health (CBH)

Master in Functional Advanced Materials and Engineering (FAME+) 2019 - 2021
Technische Universität Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt)
Université Catholique Louvain (UCLouvain)

Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering 2014 - 2018
National Taiwan University (NTU)

Recent publications

Full list in the KTH publications portal
[1]
M.-R. Kao et al., "A Robust α-L-Fucosidase from Prevotella nigrescens for Glycoengineering Therapeutic Antibodies," ACS Chemical Biology, vol. 19, no. 7, pp. 1515-1524, 2024.
[2]
M.-R. Kao, R. K. Saldivar and Y. S. Y. Hsieh, "Production of therapeutic glycoproteins in glycoengineered plant : old farm for new crops," Current Opinion in Biotechnology, vol. 87, 2024.
[3]
M.-R. Kao et al., "Substrate Specificities of Variants of Barley (1,3)- and (1,3;1,4)-β-d-Glucanases Resulting from Mutagenesis and Segment Hybridization," Biochemistry, vol. 63, no. 9, pp. 1194-1205, 2024.
[4]
S.-C. Chang et al., "Two glycosyl transferase 2 genes from the gram-positive bacterium Clostridium ventriculi encode (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucan synthases," Carbohydrate Polymers, vol. 342, 2024.
[5]
S.-Y. Hsiung et al., "Structures of the xyloglucans in the monocotyledon family Araceae (aroids)," Planta, vol. 257, no. 2, 2023.
[6]
S.-C. Chang et al., "The Gram-positive bacterium Romboutsia ilealis harbors a polysaccharide synthase that can produce (1,3;1,4)-β-D-glucans," Nature Communications, vol. 14, no. 1, 2023.
Full list in the KTH publications portal