Emerging engineered wood for building applications

Y Ding, Z Pang, K Lan, Y Yao, G Panzarasa… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The building sector, including building operations and materials, was responsible for the
emission of∼ 11.9 gigatons of global energy-related CO2 in 2020, accounting for 37% of the …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring the development and applications of sustainable natural fiber composites: A review from a nanoscale perspective

Y Feng, H Hao, H Lu, CL Chow, D Lau - Composites Part B: Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
As a result of global sustainable development, natural fiber composites (NFCs) have
become increasingly attractive due to their remarkable performance, novel functionality, and …

Bioinspired nanofibrous aerogel with vertically aligned channels for efficient water purification and salt‐rejecting solar desalination

W Ma, T Lu, W Cao, R ** 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 …

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 …

Bioinspired structural hydrogels with highly ordered hierarchical orientations by flow-induced alignment of nanofibrils

S Zhu, S Wang, Y Huang, Q Tang, T Fu, R Su… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Natural structural materials often possess unique combinations of strength and toughness
resulting from their complex hierarchical assembly across multiple length scales. However …

Structure–property–function relationships of natural and engineered wood

C Chen, Y Kuang, S Zhu, I Burgert, T Keplinger… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
The complex structure of wood, one of the most abundant biomaterials on Earth, has been
optimized over 270 million years of tree evolution. This optimization has led to the highly …

Carbon‐based composite phase change materials for thermal energy storage, transfer, and conversion

X Chen, P Cheng, Z Tang, X Xu, H Gao… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Phase change materials (PCMs) can alleviate concerns over energy to some extent by
reversibly storing a tremendous amount of renewable and sustainable thermal energy …