Dr. Sascha Brinker
Research interests
- wood-based materials
- Adhesives
- Chemical wood modification
Projects
- OptiDaemm - Adaptation of the production parameters for wood fibre insulating materials to a changed wood species composition to optimise the product properties
- Innobond - Development of material-adapted adhesive systems for use in finger-jointed and surface-bonded solid wood products manufactured from both untreated and modified native hardwoods for non-structural components
- Gerlau - Utilisation-oriented investigations of low-value hardwood assortments for the production of innovative products
- WIPANO - Development of novel isocyanate-based acceleration systems for use in the wood-based panel industry
- WoodSense - Developing and implementing formaldehyde online-senor systems in wood-based panel processing
- BioT - Process for the treatment of wood and wood-based materials - Creation of new sales markets and fields of application for teak wood substitutes
Responsibilities
- Thermal analysis
- Formaldehyde analysis
- Photometry
- Nitrogen analysis
Teaching
Supervision of student theses (for reasons of data protection law, the authors names have been made anonymous)
Master’s theses
- Application of accelerated isocyanate adhesives in the production of wood-based materials
- Investigations into the application of isocyanate catalyzed with ammonium salts as an adhesive for medium density fibreboard (MDF)
- Production and testing of single-layer particle boards bonded with gelatin and phenol-formaldehyde resin
- Aging behaviour of urea-formaldehyde adhesives
2018
2016
2015
2013
Bachelor’s theses
- Charakterisierung ausgewählter Laub- und Nadel Holzfasern zur Herstellung von Holzfaserdämmplatten
- Zusammenfassung und Vergleich des derzeitigen Standes der Forschung zu Holzfaserdämmplatten aus- und mit beigemischtem Laubholz
- Brandschutzmittel für Vollholz
- Alternative raw materials for wood-based materials (use of wood from short-rotation plantations or less-used types of wood)
2022
2015
2012
Project theses
- Modification of koto and limba with melamine resins
2015
Publikationen