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Focusing plastic solutions up the waste hierarchy: Pathways for a more circular economy

iScience
SUMMARY: Plastic pollution requires urgent global action, including continued Global Plastics Treaty negotiations. A systems change approach is essential, with growing momentum for a plastics circular economy that emphasizes recycling and bio-based ...
Kathryn A. Willis, Murray Richards, Britta Denise Hardesty   +2 more
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Supporting the development process for building products by the use of research portfolio analysis: A case study for wood plastics composite materials

Case Studies in Construction Materials, 2016
Today’s plastics are increasingly compounded using renewable fibres. Such composites raised the interest of the massively bulk-plastics consuming building industry.
Daniel Friedrich, Andreas Luible
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Structure‐Guided Dynamical Mechanics in Bioinspired Double Twisted Laminated Thin Films

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This work explores a dynamic mechanistic study of crack propagation and puncture testing via real‐time monitoring of crack initiation, propagation, and termination through nature‐inspired single and double twisted architectures fabricated from cellulose nanocrystals.
Justin Brackenridge, Olivia Harper, Jaejun Lee, Sergio Gonzalez‐Munoz, Vladimir V. Tsukruk   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Quantitative sustainability assessment of bio-based materials for wind turbine rotor blades [PDF]

, 2013
Over the recent decades biomaterials have been successfully marketed thanks to the common perception that biomaterials and environmental sustainability de facto represent two sides of the same coin.
Corona, Andrea
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Bio-plastics production from starch [PDF]

, 2020
The aim of this thesis was researching mainly about bio-plastics and bio-plastic production from starch which is a future alternative to petrochemical plastics and to gain more academic knowledge of bio-plastics production from different types of starch,
Le, Van
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Flexible, thermal processable, self-healing, and fully bio-based starch plastics by constructing dynamic imine network

Green Energy & Environment
The serious environmental threat caused by petroleum-based plastics has spurred more researches in developing substitutes from renewable sources. Starch is desirable for fabricating bioplastic due to its abundance and renewable nature.
Xiaoqian Zhang, Haishan Zhang, Guowen Zhou, Zhiping Su, Xiaohui Wang   +4 more
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Greenhouse gas mitigation for U.S. plastics production: energy first, feedstocks later

Environmental Research Letters, 2017
Plastics production is responsible for 1% and 3% of U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and primary energy use, respectively. Replacing conventional plastics with bio-based plastics (made from renewable feedstocks) is frequently proposed as a way to ...
I Daniel Posen, Paulina Jaramillo, Amy E Landis, W Michael Griffin   +3 more
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Electrospun Wood‐Derived Biopolymers as Electrodes in Electrochemical Energy Storage Technologies

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Electrospinning transforms wood‐derived cellulose and lignin into architecturally defined, binder‐free carbon electrodes with tuneable porosity and functionality. This review shows how fibre design enables decoupled charge and mass transport, enhancing performance across battery systems, while identifying key challenges in spinnability, scalability ...
Michael W. Thielke, Hattie R. Chisnall, Jesus Vazquez Chavez, Ana B. Jorge Sobrido   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bio-Based Plastics: Challenge or Reality? Perspectives and Constraints of Their Exploitation as Sustainable Alternative to Fossil Plastics

Bio-based plastics are an emerging alternative to traditional petroleum-based plastics, offering numerous advantages as they come from renewable resources, reducing the dependence on non-renewable fossil fuels, the carbon footprint, and at the same time,
Francesca Spanò, Maria Gelli, Michela Tassistro, Paola Stagnaro, Lucia Conzatti, Gabriella Santagata, Lorena Affatato, Roberto Utzeri, Ilaria Schizzi, Pierfrancesco Cerruti, Sarai Agustin-Salazar   +10 more
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Implantable Ionic Memristors Based on Natural Polymer Heterojunctions

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
We report an implantable natural polymer‐based ionic memristor composed of hyaluronic acid, chitosan, and PDMS. The device achieved 98.94% accuracy in MNIST classification while reducing training time by 36.8% compared with a conventional artificial neural network (ANN).
Dong‐yup Lee, Byung Ik Park, Gihyeon Yim, Hyunjae Yoo, Sangjun Ma, Jundong Park, Jeong‐Yun Sun   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source