The modern eco-friendly materials used in research and innovation today consist of
nanocomposites and bio-nanocomposite polymers. Their unique composite properties make …

Crustacean shells are a sustainable source of chitin. Extracting chitin from crustacean shells
is ongoing research, much of which is devoted to devising a sustainable process that yields …

Chitin, as the most abundant non-wood biopolymer on earth, exists widely in the shells of
crustaceans, the cell walls of fungi, and the cuticles of insects. It consists of N-acetyl-D …

Waste, in particular, biowaste, can be a valuable source of novel carbon materials.
Renewable carbon materials, such as biomass-derived carbons, have gained significant …

Herein, the contact distance and effective tunneling conductivity in graphene polymer
nanocomposites are expressed assuming the properties of graphene stack and the …

Hydrogels are three-dimensional networks with a variety of structures and functions that
have a remarkable ability to absorb huge amounts of water or biological fluids. They can …

In this work, the tunneling resistivity between neighboring nanosheets in grapheme–polymer
nanocomposites is expressed by a simple equation as a function of the characteristics of …

It is no secret that graphene, a two-dimensional single-layered carbon atom crystal lattice,
has drawn tremendous attention due to its distinct electronic, surface, mechanical, and …

The progressive trend of utilizing bioactive materials constitutes diverse materials exhibiting
biocompatibility. The innovative aspect of this research is the tuning of the thermo …

Carbon materials derived from marine waste have been drawing attention for supercapacitor
applications. In this work, chitins from squid and prawn marine wastes were used as carbon …