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Overview

Minna Hakkarainen is affiliated with the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Engineering, with a specialized focus across several subfields including Biomaterials, Polymers and Plastics, Biomedical Engineering, Organic Chemistry, and Pollution.

Their scholarly work addresses key topics such as biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties, polymer composites and self-healing, microplastics and plastic pollution, carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis, additive manufacturing and 3D printing technologies, advanced cellulose research studies, and lignin and wood chemistry.

Frequent co-authorship collaborations have been established with researchers including Karin Odelius, Marco Sangermano, Karin H. Adolfsson, Sathiyaraj Subramaniyan, and Akram Zamani.

They have published extensively in several notable scientific journals. The frequent publication venues include:

  • ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
  • Biomacromolecules
  • European Polymer Journal
  • ACS Applied Polymer Materials
  • Polymer

Representative recent papers by Minna Hakkarainen include:

  • "Sustainable polymers," 2022, Nature Reviews Methods Primers
  • "Degradation of Cellulose Derivatives in Laboratory, Man-Made, and Natural Environments," 2022, Biomacromolecules
  • "Degradable or not? Cellulose acetate as a model for complicated interplay between structure, environment and degradation," 2020, Chemosphere
  • "Carbon dot/polymer nanocomposites: From green synthesis to energy, environmental and biomedical applications," 2021, Sustainable Materials and Technologies
  • "Rapid Physicochemical Changes in Microplastic Induced by Biofilm Formation," 2020, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology

Best Publications

  • From Lactic Acid to Poly(lactic acid) (PLA): Characterization and Analysis of PLA and Its Precursors

    Saara Inkinen;Minna Hakkarainen;Ann-Christine Albertsson;Anders Södergård

  • Aliphatic polyesters : Abiotic and biotic degradation and degradation products

    Minna Hakkarainen

  • Designed to degrade

    Ann-Christine Albertsson;Minna Hakkarainen

  • Sustainable polymers

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  • Degradable polyethylene: fantasy or reality.

    Prasun K Roy;Minna Hakkarainen;Indra K Varma;Ann-Christine Albertsson

  • Weight losses and molecular weight changes correlated with the evolution of hydroxyacids in simulated in vivo degradation of homo-and copolymers of PLA and PGA

    Minna Hakkarainen;Ann-Christine Albertsson;Sigbritt Karlsson

  • Degradation of Cellulose Derivatives in Laboratory, Man-Made, and Natural Environments

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  • Environmental degradation of polyethylene

    Minna Hakkarainen;Ann-Christine Albertsson

  • Rapid (bio)degradation of polylactide by mixed culture of compost microorganisms—low molecular weight products and matrix changes

    Minna Hakkarainen;Sigbritt Karlsson;Ann-Christine Albertsson

  • Degradable or not? Cellulose acetate as a model for complicated interplay between structure, environment and degradation

    Nisha Yadav;Minna Hakkarainen

  • Molecular Weight Changes and Polymeric Matrix Changes Correlated with the Formation of Degradation Products in Biodegraded Polyethylene

    Ann-Christine Albertsson;Bengt Erlandsson;Minna Hakkarainen;Sigbritt Karlsson

  • Recent progress on parylene C polymer for biomedical applications : a review

    Monika Golda-Cepa;Klas Engvall;Minna Hakkarainen;Andrzej Kotarba

  • Carbon dot/polymer nanocomposites: From green synthesis to energy, environmental and biomedical applications

    Zhaoxuan Feng;Karin H. Adolfsson;Yanan Xu;Haiqiu Fang

  • Polylactide stereocomplexation leads to higher hydrolytic stability but more acidic hydrolysis product pattern.

    Sofia Regnell Andersson;Minna Hakkarainen;Saara Inkinen;Anders Södergård

  • Trash to Treasure : Microwave-Assisted Conversion of Polyethylene to Functional Chemicals

    Eva Bäckström;Karin Odelius;Minna Hakkarainen

  • Designed from Biobased for Recycling: Imine-Based Covalent Adaptable Networks.

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  • Environmentally friendly plasticizers for poly(vinyl chloride)—Improved mechanical properties and compatibility by using branched poly(butylene adipate) as a polymeric plasticizer

    Annika Lindström;Minna Hakkarainen

  • Rapid Physicochemical Changes in Microplastic Induced by Biofilm Formation

    Eric McGivney;Linnea Cederholm;Andreas Barth;Minna Hakkarainen

  • Porosity and pore size regulate the degradation product profile of polylactide.

    Karin Odelius;Anders Höglund;Sanjeev Kumar;Minna Hakkarainen

  • Microwave Heating Causes Rapid Degradation of Antioxidants in Polypropylene Packaging, Leading to Greatly Increased Specific Migration to Food Simulants As Shown by ESI-MS and GC-MS

    Jonas Alin;Minna Hakkarainen

  • Oligomeric isosorbide esters as alternative renewable resource plasticizers for PVC

    Bo Yin;Minna Hakkarainen

  • Tuning the release rate of acidic degradation products through macromolecular design of caprolactone-based copolymers.

    Minna Hakkarainen;Anders Höglund;Karin Odelius;Ann-Christine Albertsson

  • Microwave carbonized cellulose for trace pharmaceutical adsorption

    Zhaoxuan Feng;Karin Odelius;Gunaratna Kuttuva Rajarao;Minna Hakkarainen

Frequent Co-Authors

Ann-Christine Albertsson
Ann-Christine Albertsson Royal Institute of Technology
Sigbritt Karlsson
Sigbritt Karlsson Royal Institute of Technology
Andrzej Kotarba
Andrzej Kotarba Jagiellonian University
Marco Sangermano
Marco Sangermano Polytechnic University of Turin
Marek Kowalczuk
Marek Kowalczuk Polish Academy of Sciences
Zhong-Ming Li
Zhong-Ming Li Sichuan University
Vahid Haddadi-Asl
Vahid Haddadi-Asl Amirkabir University of Technology
Gianluca Ciardelli
Gianluca Ciardelli Polytechnic University of Turin
Elena Gorokhova
Elena Gorokhova Stockholm University
Zahra Shariatinia
Zahra Shariatinia Amirkabir University of Technology

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