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Plant‐Based Biopolymer Composites for Smart and Sustainable Food Packaging: Global Insights, Recent Advances, and Future Research Directions

Food Frontiers, Volume 7, Issue 2, March 2026.
Plant‐based biopolymer composites are promising eco‐friendly solutions for sustainable food packaging. This review explores their development, functionalization, and challenges, highlighting advancements in barrier properties, antimicrobial activity, and UV protection.
Muhammad Bilal, Maratab Ali, Faryal Shaukat, Samee Ullah, Muhammad Arslan, Zhihua Li, Zou Xiaobo, Maryam Wahab, Yemin Guo, Xia Sun, Zienab F. R. Ahmed   +10 more
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Untargeted Metabolomics Reveals Organ‐Specific and Extraction‐Dependent Metabolite Profiles in Endemic Tajik Species Ferula violacea Korovin

Plant Direct, Volume 10, Issue 3, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Ferula violacea Korovin, an endemic Tajikistani plant with purported medicinal properties, remains understudied. This study employs untargeted metabolomics to characterize the metabolite profiles of ethanol extracts and juices from F. violacea roots and seeds.
Sylhiya Mavlonazarova, Kenneth Acosta, Rinat Abzalimov, Saidbeg Satorov, Vyacheslav Dushenkov   +4 more
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MXene‐Based Materials: Compositional Engineering for High‐Performance Microwave Absorption

Rare Metals, Volume 45, Issue 3, March 2026.
ABSTRACT The rapid advancement of aerospace and electronic information technologies has imposed increasingly stringent requirements on microwave absorbing materials (MAMs), such as high absorption efficiency, lightweight, and environmental stability, making the development of advanced MAMs urgent for both civilian and national defense applications ...
Pan‐Pan Zhou, Shi‐Lin Yuan, Wen‐Yu Cao, Xiao‐Chi Lu, Ya‐Wei Kuang, Xue‐Kun Hong, Yu‐Shen Liu, Li‐Xi Wang, Qi‐Tu Zhang   +8 more
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Triboelectric Capacitance Supplementation in Energy Storage Composites with Functionalized Carbon Fiber Electrodes

Small, Volume 22, Issue 16, 17 March 2026.
Triboelectric contact electrification evaluation between structural supercapacitor layers using surface‐functionalized carbon fiber electrodes. Electrospun nanofiber separators can aid in capacitance augmentation by leveraging the contact electrification effect of dissimilar materials.
Žan Simon, Bhagya Dharmasiri, Ronald T. Leon, Ben Newman, Fatemeh Mokhtari, Piers Coia, Elmer S. Austria Jr., Behnam Akhavan, Peter C. Sherrell, Amanda V. Ellis, Russell J. Varley, Luke C. Henderson   +11 more
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Alkaline Polyethylene Glycol Treatment for Material Utilization of Lignin

Alkaline Polyethylene Glycol Treatment for Material Utilization of Lignin
2016
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Carbon Dot‐Based Mechanofluorescent Hydrogel with Tunable Fluorescence for Bioengineering Applications

Small, Volume 22, Issue 14, 6 March 2026.
Hybrid hydrogels embedded with carbon‐based quantum dots (CQDs) exhibit real‐time fluorescence change in response to compressive force. These hydrogels demonstrate multifunctionality, biocompatibility, and tunable mechanofluorescent behavior, enabling advanced applications in soft robotics.
Elahe Masaeli, Poushali Das, Seshasai Srinivasan, Amin Reza Rajabzadeh   +3 more
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Smart molecular design for functional cellulose gels and flexible devices

Smart Molecules, Volume 4, Issue 1, March 2026.
This review systematically outlines the performance enhancement of cellulose gels, presenting optimization strategies across molecular, supramolecular, and macroscopic scales. It discusses advanced approaches to improve their mechanical, electrical, and thermal properties, and highlights promising applications in flexible robotics, electric devices, e ...
Zeshi Li, Minxin Wang, Geyuan Jiang, Jianhong Zhou, Donghan Li, Weihua Zhang, Dawei Zhao   +6 more
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Multiscale Nanocellulosic Biomaterials in Therapeutics and Food Sciences

Small Structures, Volume 7, Issue 3, March 2026.
Multiscale nanocellulosic biomaterials offer exceptional physicochemical, mechanical, and biological properties; enabling transformative advances in therapeutics and food sciences. This review summarizes their structure–property relationships, key applications in drug delivery, tissue engineering, and food technology. Additionally, it outlines emerging
Hemant Singh, Blaise Tardy, Bruno Dufau Mattos, Shivi Tripathi, Mohd Hasan Mujahid, Sai Kumar Tammina, Narayan Chandra Mishra, Himanshu Sekhar Nanda, Fawzi Banat, Shabir Hassan   +9 more
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Ions as Architects of DNA Nanostructures: Mechanisms, Simulations, and Technological Frontiers

Small Structures, Volume 7, Issue 3, March 2026.
Ions are not merely passive electrolytes but active regulators of DNA nanostructures. This review shows how ion valence, hydration, and specificity govern electrostatic screening, correlation, and confinement, enabling DNA origami, metallized DNA, nanopores, hydrogels, DNAzymes, molecular machines, and energy devices through integrated experimental and
Sergiy Perepelytsya, Dmytro Piatnytskyi, Tetiana Bubon, Narcis Cibotariu, Aatto Laaksonen, Francesca Mocci   +5 more
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Emergence, Challenges, and Opportunities for Chiral Nanocellulose Assemblies in Tissue Engineering and Wound Healing

Small Structures, Volume 7, Issue 3, March 2026.
This review explores chiral nanomaterials for tissue engineering and wound healing, specifically focusing on the potential of nanocellulose. The inherent chirality of nanocelluloses and their assemblies enables the creation of biomimetic scaffolds with unique biological interactions. Chiral nematic self‐assembly of cellulose nanocrystals, in particular,
Mahboubeh Nabavinia, Hossein Khanjanzadeh, Asier R. Muguruza, Anna Roig, Erlantz Lizundia, Justin O. Zoppe   +5 more
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