Cellulose, a natural, renewable, and environment friendly biopolymer, has been considered
as a sustainable feedstock in the near future. However, only 0.3% of cellulose is today …

Cellulose, the chain of glucose residues easily obtained from nature, is the most common
natural polymer. Owing to its own unique material properties, compared to the conventional …

Wood is a renewable and eco-friendly resource with great promise to advance sustainability
in various industries, particularly those associated with construction and building materials …

Increasing performance demands and shorter use lifetimes of consumer electronics have
resulted in the rapid growth of electronic waste. Currently, consumer electronics are typically …

Highly porous, strong aerogels with anisotropic structural properties are of great interest for
multifunctional materials for applications including insulators in buildings, filters for oil …

This is the first report on the dissolution of cellulose at room temperature (RT) by using the
AlCl3/ZnCl2· 4H2O solvent system. Cellulose with broad degrees of polymerization (DP) …

Cellulose as the most abundant renewable polymer displays great potential to substitute the
petroleum-derived synthetic polymers. However, cellulose is difficult to be melted or …

The physical adsorption of nanosized plastic beads onto a model cellulose film and two
living algal species, Chlorella and Scenedesmus, has been studied. This adsorption has …

Chitin and chitosan (CS) are biopolymers having immense structural possibilities for
chemical and mechanical modifications to generate novel properties, functions and …

Chitin is the second most important natural polymer in the world. The main sources exploited
are two marine crustaceans, shrimp and crabs. Our objective is to appraise the state of the …