会议时间：2015年3月21—23日
会议地点：土耳其•埃斯基谢希尔市RIXOS酒店会议厅
演讲嘉宾：Barry GOODELL，美国弗吉尼亚理工大学教授

摘要：Humans have used wood for thousands of years, and although archeologists typically divide early human development into the Stone Age, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, it can be argued that wood has done more for human technological and cultural development over that time period than all of the other materials combined. In these World Wood Day meetings, the focus is primarily on exploring the traditional uses of wood in its solid and composite forms for use as structural materials and also objets d’art. But it is also important to learn about new ways to expand the uses of wood materials in other creative ways to produce advanced, or modern, items and products that are not typically associated with wood. Only in this way can we continue to expand the role of wood in growing a sustainable society.

One of the areas that will be overviewed in this talk will be the use of natural decay fungi to deconstruct wood in biotechnological processes, for the production of valuable materials ranging from bioplastics to adhesives. Other areas discussed will include the use of carbon from wood for a variety of future applications including the production of carbon nanotubes that may have use in reinforcing other materials enabling the creation of unique and higher strength products. Further, wood carbonized in certain ways can be produced with very fine nanostructure, which produces high surface area carbons that are ideal for a variety of high-value energy storage applications (from batteries to supercapacitors). Similarly, by taking advantage of the unique nanostructural aspects of wood fiber, we can also produce a unique material known as nanocellulose. Nanocellulose is optically clear, but it can also be optically tuned to be virtually any color in the rainbow. Further, nanocellulose has mechanical properties equivalent to titanium or Kevlar.  

If we can learn how to harness the potential of nanocellulose and other new materials derived from wood, then a new era will dawn for the use of wood and other natural biomaterials. Perhaps we will even advance from our more recent Machine and Technology Ages into a new Wood and Biomaterials Age to ultimately become a more advanced and sustainable society.
 

　　Barry GOODELL博士长期从事可持续生物质材料和木材科学与工程方面的研究。研究领域涉及生物转化、生物能源、生物复合材料以及可持续纳米材料，发表论文数百篇，拥有多项专利。Barry GOODELL博士毕业于美国俄勒冈州立大学，他曾在美国缅因大学任教，目前任教于国弗吉尼亚理工大学，担任可持续生物质材料系教授。

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