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Special Issue: 90th birthday of Henri Chanzy

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Toward bridging the structure and properties of polysaccharides: special issue dedicated to Dr. Henri Chanzy

This special issue is dedicated to Dr. Henri Chanzy on the occasion of his 90th birthday in September 2023 to honor his invaluable contribution to the science of polysaccharides, particularly cellulose. Throughout his career at Cermav (Grenoble, France) and even after his retirement, Henri Chanzy shared his scientific rigor and enthusiasm for new findings. We would like to have this special issue as a forum for new findings in cellulose science, including intriguing unpublished data/observations that have been difficult to analyze and interpret. By sharing such observations, we hope that it will provide new opportunities and perspectives in the cellulose science community.

Editors

  • Yu Ogawa Yu Ogawa , 

    Yu Ogawa

    Yu Ogawa is a research scientist at Centre de Recherches sur les Macromolécules Végétales (Cermav, -CNRS) Grenoble, France. He received his PhD in 2014 from the Department of Biomaterials science, the University of Tokyo. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Cermav (2014-17) and the Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge (2017-18). His research interest is focused on the ultrastructure of cellulose and related carbohydrate-based materials, in particular the characterization of the nanoscale heterogeneity of these materials using electron microscopy and electron diffraction.

  • Yoshiharu Nishiyama Yoshiharu Nishiyama , 

    Yoshiharu Nishiyama

    He is currently a senior scientist at CERMAV of CNRS and Université Grenoble Alpes. He received his PhD in 2000 from the University of Tokyo, Japan, under supervision of professor T. Okano and S. Kuga, and under supervision of Dr. H. Chanzy during his 15 months stay at CERMAV. After graduation, he served the University of Tokyo at the department of biomaterial sciences as assistant professor until 2004. He then moved to France and joined CERMAV, as junior scientist and promoted to senior scientist in 2018. His research is focused on structure and properties of cellulosic materials. He is recipient of the 2021 Anselme Payen Award.

  • Bruno Jean Bruno Jean , 

    Bruno Jean

    He is a Research Scientist in the “Structure and Properties of Glycomaterials” goup in CNRS at CERMAV (Grenoble, France). His work deals with the investigation of structure-properties relationships in various molecular systems and is based on soft matter concepts and the use of X-ray and neutron scattering techniques on large-scale instruments. He focuses on nanocellulose production, derivatization and surface and bulk assembly aiming for designing functional biosourced materials. He was involved in the investigation of cellulose nanocrystals-based multilayered films and the design of innovative stimuli-sensitive nanocellulose assemblies.

  • Jean-Luc Putaux Jean-Luc Putaux  &

    Jean-Luc Putaux

    Jean-Luc Putaux is a senior scientist at Centre de Recherches sur les Macromolécules Végétales (CNRS, Grenoble, France) where he studies the morphology, structure and polymorphism of crystalline polysaccharides in their native or recrystallized state, using the resources of transmission electron microscopy and electron crystallography. He has co-authored more than 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters. Since 2015, he has been the scientific coordinator of the Electron Microscopy Facility of the NanoBio-ICMG Platform in Grenoble.

  • Alfred D. French Alfred D. French

    Alfred D. French

    He is Editor-in-Chief of Cellulose (since 2012) and a retired research scientist still collaborating with the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Al led both the American Chemical Society’s Cellulose and Carbohydrate Divisions. His research has focused on computational chemistry of starch, cellulose, and related small molecules. French coauthored several crystal structures and related them and others to the modeling. He is now exploring cellulose crystallinity by Rietveld powder X-ray diffraction. As Editor, he promotes standard cellulose crystal nomenclature and IUPAC definitions.

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