Dr. Warren Batchelor

Dr. Warren Batchelor is an Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Bioresource Processing Research Institute of Australia (BioPRIA), part of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Monash University. He is also Director of Education in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. He is the chair of the Standards Australia PK-019 committee, which develops standards for the pulp and paper industry and is the Australian representative on the international committee, TC6. 

His major research interests are in sustainable materials, with a particular interest in materials from cellulose nanofibers (CNFs), with contributions including:

  • Recyclability of CNF films and of paper-polymer laminates.
  • Life-cycle analysis of materials and processes
  • CNF characterisation methods including developing standards for CNFs.
  • Paper mill biorefinery and CNF production.
  • Methods for the rapid preparation of CNF sheets by spray coating and vacuum filtration.
  • Development of renewable, recyclable, CNF barrier layers to displace petroleum-derived polymers in packaging.
  • Nanoparticle-cellulose nanofibre composites for barrier applications, ultrafiltration membranes, antimicrobial functional layers and photocatalytic degradation of organic contaminants.

He is a Fellow of Appita and he has been awarded the Ken Maddern award for outstanding paper published in the Appita Journal in 2013 and the Outstanding paper award for papers published by Tappi Journal in 2008.

More information about publications, awards, grants and supervision  is available at:

 https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/warren-batchelor 

https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=_wgV9XIAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6880-7765