Cellulose: a review of water interactions, applications in composites, and water treatment

A Etale, AJ Onyianta, SR Turner, SJ Eichhorn - Chemical reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Cellulose is known to interact well with water, but is insoluble in it. Many polysaccharides
such as cellulose are known to have significant hydrogen bond networks joining the …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Ice‐templated, sustainable carbon aerogels with hierarchically tailored channels for sodium‐and potassium‐ion batteries

J Wang, Z Xu, JC Eloi, MM Titirici… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Sodium‐ion batteries (SIBs) and potassium‐ion batteries (PIBs) are prospective candidates
for large‐scale energy storage systems cause of their abundant resources. However …

Nanocellulose: a promising nanomaterial for advanced electrochemical energy storage

W Chen, H Yu, SY Lee, T Wei, J Li, Z Fan - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanocellulose has emerged as a sustainable and promising nanomaterial owing to its
unique structures, superb properties, and natural abundance. Here, we present a …

Recent progress in cellulose nanocrystals: sources and production

D Trache, MH Hussin, MKM Haafiz, VK Thakur - Nanoscale, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Cellulose nanocrystals, a class of fascinating bio-based nanoscale materials, have received
a tremendous amount of interest both in industry and academia owing to its unique structural …

Surface-initiated controlled radical polymerization: state-of-the-art, opportunities, and challenges in surface and interface engineering with polymer brushes

JO Zoppe, NC Ataman, P Mocny, J Wang… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The generation of polymer brushes by surface-initiated controlled radical polymerization (SI-
CRP) techniques has become a powerful approach to tailor the chemical and physical …

Wood-derived materials for green electronics, biological devices, and energy applications

H Zhu, W Luo, PN Ciesielski, Z Fang, JY Zhu… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
With the arising of global climate change and resource shortage, in recent years, increased
attention has been paid to environmentally friendly materials. Trees are sustainable and …

Wood‐based nanotechnologies toward sustainability

F Jiang, T Li, Y Li, Y Zhang, A Gong, J Dai… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
With over 30% global land coverage, the forest is one of nature's most generous gifts to
human beings, providing shelters and materials for all living beings. Apart from being …