Plastic waste upcycling: a sustainable solution for waste management, product development, and circular economy

R Balu, NK Dutta, N Roy Choudhury - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Plastic waste pollution, including non-biodegradable landfills, leaching of toxic chemicals
into soil and waterways, and emission of toxic gases into the atmosphere, is significantly …

Application of biochar as functional material for remediation of organic pollutants in water: an overview

MF Gasim, ZY Choong, PL Koo, SC Low… - Catalysts, 2022 - mdpi.com
In recent years, numerous studies have focused on the use of biochar as a biological
material for environmental remediation due to its low-cost precursor (waste), low toxicity, and …

Annealed peanut shell biochar as potential reinforcement for aloe vera fiber-epoxy biocomposite: mechanical, thermal conductivity, and dielectric properties

N Balaji, L Natrayan, S Kaliappan, PP Patil… - Biomass Conversion …, 2024 - Springer
The mechanical, thermal conductivity, and dielectric behavior of peanut shell biochar
toughened aloe vera fiber–reinforced epoxy resin composites were studied in this present …

Biochar filler in MEX and VPP additive manufacturing: characterization and reinforcement effects in polylactic acid and standard grade resin matrices

N Vidakis, D Kalderis, M Petousis, E Maravelakis… - Biochar, 2023 - Springer
The development of sustainable and functional biocomposites remains a robust research
and industrial claim. Herein, the efficiency of using eco-friendly biochar as reinforcement in …

Mechanical, tribology, dielectric, thermal conductivity, and water absorption behaviour of Caryota urens woven fibre-reinforced coconut husk biochar toughened wood …

P Prabhu, D Jayabalakrishnan, V Balaji… - Biomass Conversion …, 2024 - Springer
In this present study for light weight and low-cost engineering applications, high toughness
epoxy biocomposites were made using Caryota urens woven (CUW) fibre and coconut husk …

Recent advances on value-added biocarbon preparation by the pyrolysis of renewable and waste biomass, their structure and properties: a move toward an …

MP Drupitha, M Misra, AK Mohanty - Environmental Science …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The production of renewable biocarbon from waste biomass through pyrolysis as a
sustainable and ecofriendly alternative to carbon black poses major scientific challenges for …

Adsorption-desorption of copper (II) by temperature-sensitive nano-biochar@ PNIPAM/alginate double-network composite hydrogel: Enhanced mechanisms and …

H Chen, Y Pan, W Zhang, A Long, M Chen… - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
Novel temperature-sensitive double-network composite hydrogels (denoted as nBC@ PA)
were prepared by copolymerization-crosslinking poly (N-isopropyl acrylamide), ion …

q-Gaussian Tsallis line shapes and Raman spectral bands

AC Sparavigna - arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.11092, 2023 - arxiv.org
q-Gaussians are probability distributions having their origin in the framework of Tsallis
statistics. A continuous real parameter q is characterizing them so that, in the range 1< q< 3 …

Facile green synthesis of oxygen-functionalized carbon nano-onion from lignin and biochar and its application in high-performance polylactic acid

MEA Razzaq, Y Luo, M Forrester, MCCD Ignacio… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
Carbon nano-onion (CNO) is a new class of carbon nanomaterials with various applications
such as electronics, photovoltaics, energy storage, biosensing, biomedicine, and catalysts …

Mechanical and erosion performance of sugarcane biochar-reinforced polymer composites

R Sundarakannan, V Arumugaprabu, T Sathish… - Biomass Conversion …, 2024 - Springer
The recent research and development are concentrated on identifying innovative and
efficient materials using recycling and use. In support of this, one of the results is the …