Sustainable polymers

AK Mohanty, F Wu, R Mincheva… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Sustainable polymers are materials derived from renewable, recycled and waste carbon
resources and their combinations, which at the end of life can be recycled, biodegraded or …

Green flexible electronics: natural materials, fabrication, and applications

Z Hui, L Zhang, G Ren, G Sun, HD Yu… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The emergence of plastic electronics satisfies the increasing demand for flexible electronics.
However, it has caused severe ecological problems. Flexible electronics based on natural …

Developing fibrillated cellulose as a sustainable technological material

T Li, C Chen, AH Brozena, JY Zhu, L Xu, C Driemeier… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Cellulose is the most abundant biopolymer on Earth, found in trees, waste from agricultural
crops and other biomass. The fibres that comprise cellulose can be broken down into …

A strong, biodegradable and recyclable lignocellulosic bioplastic

Q Xia, C Chen, Y Yao, J Li, S He, Y Zhou, T Li… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Renewable and biodegradable materials derived from biomass are attractive candidates to
replace non-biodegradable petrochemical plastics. However, the mechanical performance …

Transparent wood-based functional materials via a top-down approach

S Zhu, SK Biswas, Z Qiu, Y Yue, Q Fu, F Jiang… - Progress in Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Transparent wood-based materials (TWMs), made by either bottom-up or top-down
strategies, have attracted great attention owing to their transparency, sustainability and …

Ionic flexible sensors: mechanisms, materials, structures, and applications

C Zhao, Y Wang, G Tang, J Ru, Z Zhu… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past few decades, flexible sensors have been developed from the “electronic” level
to the “iontronic” level, and gradually to the “ionic” level. Ionic flexible sensors (IFS) are one …

Flexible capacitive pressure sensors for wearable electronics

H Wang, Z Li, Z Liu, J Fu, T Shan, X Yang… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Flexible pressure sensors have attracted more and more attention recently due to their
broad applications, such as in electronic skin and wearable electronics for health …

Flexible/stretchable supercapacitors with novel functionality for wearable electronics

K Keum, JW Kim, SY Hong, JG Son, SS Lee… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
With the miniaturization of personal wearable electronics, considerable effort has been
expended to develop high‐performance flexible/stretchable energy storage devices for …

Nanocellulose‐based functional materials: from chiral photonics to soft actuator and energy storage

P Lv, X Lu, L Wang, W Feng - Advanced Functional Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Nanocellulose is currently in the limelight of extensive research from fundamental science to
technological applications owing to its renewable and carbon‐neutral nature, superior …

Advances in bioresorbable materials and electronics

Y Zhang, G Lee, S Li, Z Hu, K Zhao… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Transient electronic systems represent an emerging class of technology that is defined by an
ability to fully or partially dissolve, disintegrate, or otherwise disappear at controlled rates or …