Mika Sipponen Associate Professor
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Name and title: Mika SipponenAssociate Professor
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Visiting address Room C430Svante Arrhenius väg 16 C
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Postal address Kemikum10691 Stockholm
Research group
About me
Associate Professor Mika Sipponen is a Docent in Materials Chemistry at Stockholm University and a Wallenberg Academy Fellow. In 2015, Sipponen earned his Doctor of Science (Tech.) in Chemical Technology from Aalto University, Finland, under the supervision of Prof. Simo Laakso, focusing on lignocellulosic biorefineries and industrial biotechnology.
Since 2019, Sipponen leads the Sustainable Materials Chemistry (SUSMATCHEM) research group that hosts prestigious grants from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF), the European Research Council (ERC) and Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW). His group focuses on creating functional materials from lignin and other industrial by-products, with a strong emphasis on understanding associated fundamental phenomena.
Achievements:
- Wallenberg Academy Fellow 2023
- ERC Starting Grant 2022
- SSF-FFL8 - Future Research Leader 2022
- Formas Early-career grant 2022
- Coordinator, ERA-NET ForestValue project BarkBuild 2022
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2025 - Vetenskapsrådet Starting Grant 2021
- Nouryon Nordic prize 2020
- Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Grant 2016
Teacher for Green Chemistry (KZ4101), BSc level.
Examiner for Chemistry of Renewable Materials (KZ8022), course in the MSc programme in Sustainable Chemistry.
Examiner for Advanced Materials Chemistry (KZ44019), PhD level.
The research focus areas:
- Valorization of industrial side-streams and residues
- Functional materials based on macromolecular lignins
- Lignin nanoparticles and their applications
- Polyphenols in biological systems
We are working on the following research areas and projects:
Materials for a sustainable society
Materials for energy
SUSLIG: Lignin-based functional materials for a sustainable future, SSF, 2022-2028
LignoLife: WAF-project 2025-2030
Materials for environment
LIFAGRO: (Research projects for early-career researchers, Formas 2021-2025)
Materials for health
FORFUN: From Forest to Functional Particles for Life Sciences, Vinnova 2023-2026
Synthesis and processing methods for sustainable materials
Green material synthesis
LIGNOMEMB: Biocatalytic membranes based on lignin nanoparticles (Starting Grant, Vetenskapsrådet, 2021-2025)
SUSLIG: Lignin-based functional materials for a sustainable future, SSF, 2022-2028
CIRCULIG: Circular lignin materials from well-defined functional building blocks, ERC, 2023-2028
Biobased materials processing
BarkBuild: Tree bark as a renewable source of wood protection materials for building applications (ERA-NET ForestValue, 2022-2025)
UPSIDEHYB: Upcycling food industry side streams into functional organic-inorganic hybrid materials, WISE, 2023-2027
Mika Sipponen, PI
Ievgen Pylypchuk, Researcher
Mirva Eriksson, Researcher
Federica Ferruti, Researcher
Alberto José Huertas Alonso, Postdoctoral Fellow
Linnea Cederholm, Postdoctoral Fellow
Alexandros Alexakis, Postdoctoral Fellow
Ioanna Sapouna, Postdoctoral Fellow
Mahmoud Mazarji, MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow
Unnimaya Thalakkale Veettil, PhD Student
Matilda Andersson, PhD Student
Fengyang Wang, PhD Student
Sukaina Ben Taleb Ikutza, PhD student
Yasmini Portes Abraham Silva, PhD student
Giulia Piciullo, PhD student
Carla Caponio, PhD student
Prajakta Narhari Manal, PhD student
Vu Thanh Truong, PhD student
Ruslan Gryaznov, PhD student
Siri Talme, PhD student
Fengyang Wang,
Mohammad Morsali, Jānis Rižikovs, Ievgen Pylypchuk, Aji P. Mathew,
Mika H. Sipponen,* Fully bio-based water-resistant wood coatings derived from tree bark. Mater. Horiz. 11, 2024,6504-6515 https://doi.org/10.1039/D4MH01010H
.Adrian Moreno,* Mika H. Sipponen, Overcoming Challenges of Lignin Nanoparticles: Expanding Opportunities for Scalable and Multifunctional Nanomaterials. Acc. Chem. Res.2024, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.accounts.4c00206.
Yong Zheng, Adrian Moreno, Yiqi Zhang, Mika H. Sipponen,* Lin Dai* Harnessing chemical functionality of lignin towards stimuli-responsive materials Trends Chem.2024, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trechm.2023.12.001.
Tardy, B.L., Lizundia, E.,* Chamseddine, G., Hakkarainen, M., Sipponen, M.H.* Prospects for the integration of lignin materials into the circular economy. Materials Today2023, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mattod.2023.04.001.
Moreno, A.,* Morsali, M., Sipponen, M.H.* Catalyst-Free Synthesis of Lignin Vitrimers with Tunable Mechanical Properties: Circular Polymers and Recoverable Adhesives. ACS Appl. Mat. Interf. 13, 2021, 57952-57961.
Moreno, A.,* Liu, J., Gueret, R., Hadi, S.E., Bergström, L., Slabon, A., Sipponen, M.H.* Unravelling the Hydration Barrier of Lignin Oleate Nanoparticles for Acid‐and Base‐Catalyzed Functionalization in Dispersion State. Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed. 60, 2021, 20897-20905 (Hot Paper)
A. Moreno, M. Morsali, J. Liu, M. H. Sipponen,* Access to Tough and Transparent Nanocomposites via Pickering Emulsion Polymerization using Biocatalytic Hybrid Lignin Nanoparticles as Functional Surfactants. Green Chemistry 23, 2021, 3001-3014.
A. Moreno,* M. H. Sipponen,* Biocatalytic Nanoparticles for the Stabilization of Degassed Single Electron Transfer Living Radical Pickering Emulsion Polymerizations. Nature Communications 11, 2020: 5599.
A. Moreno, M. H. Sipponen,* Lignin-based smart materials: a roadmap to processing and synthesis for current and future applications. Materials Horizons 7, 2020, 2237.
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