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Agne Swerin

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About me

The aim of my adjunct professorship supported by the Troëdsson Foundation was to strengthen the research and teaching area of surface science related to the forest-based industry sector. These are wetting, spreading and flow in porous media, adhesion mechanisms and effect of local chemical and structural heterogeneities, interactions between non-polar surfaces and combinations of  spectroscopy and microscopy.

I supervised in several PhD projects, financed by an industry companies, by councils, or foundations. My affiliation with KTH was part-time between 2012 and 2020 and I have a former researcher position at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden.

Part of Mimmi Eriksson's PhD project, in which I supervised, was recently published and KTH made a popular science article on the topic, see https://www.kth.se/aktuellt/nyheter/sa-funkar-ytor-som-inte-gillar-vatten-1.881936

Selected recent publications:

  1. Eriksson, M; Tuominen, M; Järn, M; Claesson, P; Wallqvist, V; Butt, H-J; Vollmer, D; Kappl, M; Schoelkopf, J; Gane, P; Teisala, H;Swerin, A., Direct observation of gas meniscus formation on a superhydrophobic surface, ACS Nano, 2019 13 (2), 2246-2252, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.8b08922.

  2. Natalia A. Wojas, AgneSwerin, Viveca Wallqvist, Mikael Järn, Joachim Schoelkopf, P. A.C. Gane, Per M. Claesson, Iceland spar calcite: Humidity and time effects on surface properties and their reversibility, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 541 (2019) 42–55, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2019.01.047.

  3. Swerin, A., Dimensional scaling of aqueous ink imbibition and inkjet printability on porous pigment coated paper – a revisit. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2018, 57(49): p. 16684-16691, doi.org/10.1021/acs.iecr.8b03868.

  4. MacKenzie, J., Söderberg, D.,Swerin, A., and Lundell, F., Turbulent stress measurements of fibre suspensions in a straight pipe. Physics of Fluids, 2018. 30(2): p. 025104.

  5. Koppolu, R., Abitbol, T., Kumar, V., Jaiswal, A.K.,Swerin, A., and Toivakka, M., Continuous roll-to-roll coating of cellulose nanocrystals onto paperboard. Cellulose, 2018. 25(10): p. 6055-6069.

  6. Moghaddam, M.S., van den Bulcke, J., Wålinder, M.E., Claesson, P.M., van Acker, J., andSwerin, A., Microstructure of chemically modified wood using X-ray computed tomography in relation to wetting properties. Holzforschung, 2017. 71(2): p. 119-128.

  7. Tuominen, M., Teisala, H., Haapanen, J., Mäkelä, J.M., Honkanen, M., Vippola, M., Bardage, S., Wålinder, M.E., andSwerin, A., Superamphiphobic overhang structured coating on a biobased material. Applied Surface Science, 2016. 389: p. 135-143.

  8. Swerin, A., Sundin, M., and Wåhlander, M., One-pot waterborne superhydrophobic pigment coatings at high solids with improved scratch and water resistance. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 2016. 495: p. 79-86.

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