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Preface<br />

This thesis is submitted as a partial fulfilment <strong>of</strong> the requirements for the Danish Ph.D.<br />

degree. The study was carried out from September 2001 to April 2005 at the Danish<br />

centre for Forest, Landscape and Planning, The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural<br />

University (KVL). Part <strong>of</strong> the experimental research has been carried out at Materials<br />

Research Department (AFM), Risø National Laboratory, at the Biosystems Department<br />

(BIO), Risø National Laboratory, at the Wood Ultra Structure Research Centre, Swedish<br />

University <strong>of</strong> Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and at Department <strong>of</strong> Chemistry, Technical<br />

University <strong>of</strong> Denmark. It was defended 23 rd September 2005.<br />

During the three years <strong>of</strong> work that has resulted in this thesis, many people have<br />

contributed in one way or another. I am very grateful <strong>of</strong> all <strong>of</strong> you; but there are some<br />

who deserve special thanks. First <strong>of</strong> all I will thank Dr. <strong>An</strong>ne Belinda Thomsen for<br />

introducing me to the project and for the 8 month I was involved in bioethanol research.<br />

I wish to acknowledge all my supervisors for their encouraging support and inspiration<br />

and for giving me the freedom to choose the subjects <strong>of</strong> my interest. Especially, I am<br />

thankful for the many fruitful discussions <strong>of</strong> the applied experimental procedures and the<br />

obtained results.<br />

Furthermore I express my gratitude to Mrs. <strong>An</strong>n-S<strong>of</strong>ie Hansen, Mr. Henning K.<br />

Frederiksen, Mr. Tomas Fernqvist, Mrs. Ingelis Larsen, Dr. Bo Madsen, Engineer Tom<br />

L. <strong>An</strong>dersen, Lecturer Kenny Ståhl and Dr. Ge<strong>of</strong>frey Daniel.<br />

This work was part <strong>of</strong> the project “High performance <strong>hemp</strong> <strong>fibre</strong>s and improved <strong>fibre</strong><br />

networks for <strong>composites</strong>” supported by the Danish Research Agency <strong>of</strong> the Ministry <strong>of</strong><br />

Science. Their support is gratefully acknowledged.<br />

This work was supervised by:<br />

Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Claus Felby (SL-KVL) Main supervisor<br />

Senior Scientist Hans Lilholt (AFM) Co-supervisor<br />

Senior Scientist <strong>An</strong>ne Belinda Thomsen (BIO) Co-supervisor<br />

Risø National Laboratory: 5 th April-2006<br />

6 Risø-PhD-11

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