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 …

Advanced flexible materials from nanocellulose

Z Chen, Y Hu, G Shi, H Zhuo, MA Ali… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
With the increase of environmental pollution and depletion of fossil fuel resources, the
utilization of renewable biomass resources for developing functional materials or fine …

Sustainable high-strength macrofibres extracted from natural bamboo

Z Li, C Chen, H Xie, Y Yao, X Zhang, A Brozena… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Synthetic fibres such as polyester and carbon are used in a broad variety of industries.
However, as they derive from petrochemicals that are neither renewable nor biodegradable …

Sustainable cellulose and its derivatives for promising biomedical applications

W Cheng, Y Zhu, G Jiang, K Cao, S Zeng… - Progress in Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Novel biomedical materials provide a new horizon for the diagnosis/treatment of diseases
and tissue repair. Cellulose, mainly found in trees and other biomass, is one of the most …

Fabrication of advanced cellulosic triboelectric materials via dielectric modulation

G Du, J Wang, Y Liu, J Yuan, T Liu, C Cai… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The rapid rise of triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs), which are emerging energy
conversion devices in advanced electronics and wearable sensing systems, has elevated …

Reshaping Zinc Plating/Stripping Behavior by Interfacial Water Bonding for High‐Utilization‐Rate Zinc Batteries

X Yang, Z Zhang, M Wu, ZP Guo… - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aqueous zinc batteries have emerged as promising energy storage devices; however,
severe parasitic reactions lead to the exacerbated production of Zn dendrites that decrease …

Nanocellulose: recent fundamental advances and emerging biological and biomimicking applications

K Heise, E Kontturi, Y Allahverdiyeva… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In the effort toward sustainable advanced functional materials, nanocelluloses have
attracted extensive recent attention. Nanocelluloses range from rod‐like highly crystalline …

Biodegradable, super-strong, and conductive cellulose macrofibers for fabric-based triboelectric nanogenerator

S Hu, J Han, Z Shi, K Chen, N Xu, Y Wang, R Zheng… - Nano-micro letters, 2022 - Springer
Electronic fibers used to fabricate wearable triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) for
harvesting human mechanical energy have been extensively explored. However, little …

Engineered living hydrogels

X Liu, ME Inda, Y Lai, TK Lu, X Zhao - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Living biological systems, ranging from single cells to whole organisms, can sense, process
information, and actuate in response to changing environmental conditions. Inspired by …

Deconstruction and reassembly of renewable polymers and biocolloids into next generation structured materials

BL Tardy, BD Mattos, CG Otoni, M Beaumont… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
This review considers the most recent developments in supramolecular and supraparticle
structures obtained from natural, renewable biopolymers as well as their disassembly and …