Widespread concerns over the impact of human activity on the environment have resulted in a desire to replace artificial functional materials with naturally derived alternatives. As such …
Nanofibrillar materials, such as cellulose, chitin and silk, are highly ordered architectures, formed through the self-assembly of repetitive building blocks into higher-order structures …
Nanochitin and nanochitosan (with random‐copolymer‐based multiscale architectures of glucosamine and N‐acetylglucosamine units) have recently attracted immense attention for …
The most recent strategies available for upcycling agri‐food losses and waste (FLW) into functional bioplastics and advanced materials are reviewed and the valorization of food …
Over millions of years, animals and plants have evolved complex molecules and structures that endow them with vibrant colors. Among the sources of natural coloration, structural color …
In a matter of decades, nanomaterials from biomass, exemplified by nanocellulose, have rapidly transitioned from once being a subject of curiosity to an area of fervent research and …
The adoption of circular production and consumption patterns that counteract the current issues related to the depletion of natural resources, global warming, and environmental …
AJ Benítez, A Walther - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Cellulose nanofibrils (CNFs) emerge as a renewable and sustainable feedstock for future biobased high-performance materials with environmentally friendly character. They allow for …
J Hou, BE Aydemir, AG Dumanli - … Transactions of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Chitin is one of the most abundant biopolymers, and it has adopted many different structural conformations using a combination of different natural processes like biopolymerization …