Costas Nikiforidis

Costas Nikiforidis is an assistant professor at Wageningen University & Research. His research focusses on understanding the molecular interactions in biomass, leading to sustainable separations into valuable building blocks of advanced materials.
Major Works:
- Van der Goot A.J., Pelgrom P., Berghout J.A.M., Geerts M., Jankowiak L., Hardt N., Schutyser M., Nikiforidis C.V., Boom R.M.
Concepts for further sustainable production of foods.
Journal of Food Engineering, 168: 42-51, 2016
- Nikiforidis C.V., Scholten E.
Polymer organogelation by chitin and chitin nanocrystals.
RSC Advances, 47: 37789-37799, 2015
- Nikiforidis C.V., de Vries A., Scholten E.
Natural amphiphilic proteins as tri-block Janus particles: Self sorting into thermo-responsive gels.
European Physics Letters, 107(5): 5800, 2014
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Biorefinery: From Biomass to Building Blocks of Biobased Products (edX)

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Learn how to design an effective biorefinery to obtain valuable components from various biobased feedstocks such as plants, organisms and waste streams. The use of fossil resources is a controversial topic and there is much scientific research to argue against their use for energy, chemicals, and in the production [...]