Marcus Johns
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Marcus Johns is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Sustainable Nano Biocomposites Lab, Department of Wood Science, University of British Columbia. He obtained his Doctorate degree (PhD) in Chemical Engineering at the Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies, University of Bath, UK. This focussed on the ionic liquid processing of cellulose-based films for tissue engineering under the guidance of Dr. Ram Sharma and Prof. Janet L. Scott. He then joined Prof. Stephen Eichhorn's group at the Bristol Composites Institute, University of Bristol as part of the GelEnz project, which primarily focussed on the characterization of cellulose nanofibrils and nanocrystals via their autoluminescent properties, before joining UBC. His research continues to develop photoluminescent techniques to enable rapid tracking of cellulosic nanomaterial interactions with their physicochemical environment. Simultaneously, he is investigating methods to further modify this interaction, enabling the utilization of cellulosic nanomaterials in a greater range of products.
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- Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of Fluorinated Cellodextrins Identifies a New Allomorph for Cellulose‐Like Materials** (2021)
Chemistry – A European Journal, 27 (4), 1374--1382 - Dissolution studies of α-chitin fibers in freezing NaOH(aq) (2021)
Cellulose, 28 (4), 1885--1891 - The physicochemical effect of sugar alcohol plasticisers on oxidised nanocellulose gels and extruded filaments (2021)
Cellulose, 28 (12), 7829--7843 - Employing photoluminescence to rapidly follow aggregation and dispersion of cellulose nanofibrils (2020)
The Analyst, - Hydrophobization of cellulose nanocrystals for aqueous colloidal suspensions and gels (2020)
Biomacromolecules, - Hydrophobized cellulose nanocrystals enhance xanthan and locust bean gum network properties in gels and emulsions (2020)
Carbohydrate Polymers, - Carbohydrate binding modules enhance cellulose enzymatic hydrolysis by increasing access of cellulases to the substrate (2019)
Carbohydrate Polymers, - Rapid Determination of the Distribution of Cellulose Nanomaterial Aggregates in Composites Enabled by Multi-Channel Spectral Confocal Microscopy (2019)
Microscopy and Microanalysis, - The effect of the dispersion of microfibrillated cellulose on the mechanical properties of melt-compounded polypropylene–polyethylene copolymer (2019)
Cellulose, - Designing and Synthesizing Materials with Appropriate Lifetimes (2018)
Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology, - Predicting Ligand-Free Cell Attachment on Next-Generation Cellulose–Chitosan Hydrogels (2018)
ACS Omega, - Cellulose ionics: switching ionic diode responses by surface charge in reconstituted cellulose films (2017)
The Analyst, 142 (19), 3707--3714 - Combining random walk and regression models to understand solvation in multi-component solvent systems (2017)
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 19 (27), 17805--17815 - Ionic Diodes Based on Regenerated α-Cellulose Films Deposited Asymmetrically onto a Microhole (2017)
ChemistrySelect, - On the subtle tuneability of cellulose hydrogels: implications for binding of biomolecules demonstrated for CBM 1 (2017)
Journal of Materials Chemistry B, - Surface modified cellulose scaffolds for tissue engineering (2017)
Cellulose, - Directed discovery of greener cosolvents (2016)
ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering,
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