The 2022 Marcus Wallenberg Prize of SEK 2 million is awarded to Professor Ilkka Kilpeläinen and Professor Herbert Sixta for the development and use of novel ionic liquids to process wood biomass into high-performance textile fibres. King Carl XVI Gustaf presented the prize on Monday 11 October in Stockholm.
The future demand for textile fibres is growing due to global population growth.
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Aalto University is one of the founding shareholders of the newly established Ioncell Oy, a company which will commercialise the Ioncell® technology developed at Aalto. The technology enables the production of high-quality textile fibres from wood an