'Green chemicals and technologies for the wood-to-textile value chain (GRETE)'

To improve the wood-to-textile value chain via breakthrough technologies based on novel ionic liquid and enzymes. The specific goals are to to develop more sustainable ionic liquids (IL’s) to replace the existing solvents in the value chain and to develop novel pretreatment technologies such as enzyme-aided modification or chemical modification enabling tailor-made structures. The use of innovative material combinations (e.g. cellulose with keratin) will further improve the textile properties. Overall, these developments will enable the improvement of solubility, dye adsorption, tailorability of the structures, pilling resistancy of regenerated fibres/filaments.