Ievgen Pylypchuk was born in western Ukraine in 1987. In 2009 he graduated from the chemical faculty of Kyiv National University with a master’s in polymer chemistry. He received his Ph.D. in physics and chemistry of surface in 2013 at Chuiko Institute of Surface Chemistry NAS of Ukraine, where he spent another 2 years as a junior researcher. During 2015-2017 he conducted his research in cooperation with UMCS (Lublin, Poland) and Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry (Krakow, Poland).

From 2017 to 2019 he worked at SLU-Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Uppsala, Sweden) as a postdoctoral researcher in a project “Magnetic nano adsorbents for complex water purification”. From June 2019 to April 2021, he was doing another postdoc at KTH-Royal Institute of Technology on lignin nanoparticles and understanding the lignin structure-properties relationship. Currently, he is working as a Researcher at Stockholm University under the guidance of Prof. Mika Sipponen in the sustainable material chemistry group (SUSMATCHEM).

Research interests – lignin, lignin nanoparticles, magnetic nanomaterials, surface chemistry.

Selected publications

1. Organic solvent-free production of colloidally stable spherical lignin nanoparticles at high mass concentrations. Ievgen Pylypchuk and Mika Sipponen. Green Chem., 2022

   DOI https://doi.org/10.1039/D2GC02316D

   DOI   https://doi.org/10.1039/D2GC02316D

2. Structural and molecular-weight-dependency in the formation of lignin nanoparticles from fractionated soft-and hardwood lignins. Ie Pylypchuk, A Riazanova, ME Lindström, O Sevastyanova. DOI: 10.1039/D0GC04058D (Paper) Green Chem., 2021
3. New Insight into the Surface Structure of Lignin Nanoparticles Revealed by 1H Liquid-State NMR Spectroscopy. IV Pylypchuk, PA Lindén, ME Lindström, O Sevastyanova,ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 8 (36), 13805-13812. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.0c05119
4. “Artificial Wood” Lignocellulosic Membranes: Influence of Kraft Lignin on the Properties and Gas Transport in Tunicate-Based Nanocellulose Composites. IV Pylypchuk, R Selyanchyn, T Budnyak, Y Zhao, M Lindström, S Fujikawa, O Sevastyanova, Membranes 11 (3), 204. https://doi.org/10.3390/membranes11030204
5. New Structures in Eucalyptus Kraft Lignin with Complex Mechanistic Implications. N Giummarella, IV Pylypchuk, O Sevastyanova, M Lawoko, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 8 (29), 10983-10994. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.0c03776
6. Simultaneous Removal of Acetaminophen, Diclofenac, and Cd(II) by Trametes versicolorLaccase Immobilized on Fe3O4/SiO2-DTPA Hybrid Nanocomposites. IV Pylypchuk, VG Kessler, GA Seisenbaeva, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering6 (8), 9979-9989. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b01207