Comprehensive Cellulose Chemistry

Dieter Klemm is Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Jena. He has coordinated a national research effort by the German Research Council (DFG) on cellulose and cellulose derivatives. In 2004, he was the first German recipient of the most important international award in the field of cellulose, the Anselme Payen prize of the American Chemical Society. Thomas Heinze is Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Jena, and in a cross appointment, Director of the Centre of Excellence for Polysaccharide Research Jena-Rudolstadt. He is vice chair of the research association "Materials form renewable resources" and of the ZELLCHEMING group for cellulose and cellulose derivatives. Ute Heinze is a team leader in a company dealing with environmental analysis since 2003. She obtained her Diploma Degree in Chemistry (1985) and her PhD in cellulose chemistry in 1998 from the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena. Kevin Edgar is a Technology Fellow in the Research Laboratories of Eastman Chemical Company. He obtained his BS in Chemistry from Bucknell University, and his PhD in Organic Chemistry from Duke University in 1979. He has served as the program chair and then chair of the Cellulose and Renewable Materials of the American Chemical Society. Burkhart Philipp is affiliated since 1953 with the Institute of Fiber Research in Teltow-Seehof, Germany, later renamed Polymer Chemistry. He headed it from 1969-1981 and 1990-1991. He obtained his academic degrees from Dresden Technical University where he was active as Professor of Technical Polymer Chemistry. Apart from other awards, he has received the Hermann Staudinger Award and the Alexander Mitscherlich Medal. Peter Zugenmaier is retired professor from Clausthal University of Technology, Germany, and former head of the Institute of Physical Chemistry. Having obtained his academic degrees in Physics and in Polymer Science from the University of Freiburg, he centered his research on structural features of amylosics and cellulosics. He has authored almost 200 scientific publications and received the Anselme Payen Award and a Fellowship for Research of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.