Meeting and Research Outcomes

Identified project for collaboration	• Research on the making of soil cover and hydrogel from fibers. • Research on the hydrogel in oil and water separation application.
Collaboration	• Between UTM-NUT: cellulose hydrogel project. • Due to the interest of several companies in Japan towards oil and water separation, NUT tried to connect them with UTM. • Student attachment/internship.
Training output	• The Bio-Hydrogel from cellulose fiber has been fabricated successfully. The technique studied will be used in producing hydrogel from other natural fibers.
Conclusion	• The outcomes from this visit were the beginning to a collaboration between NUT and UTM. Prof Kobayashi expected to be visited UTM in April 2018 for further discussion.