Piezoelectric materials for energy harvesting and sensing applications: Roadmap for future smart materials

SD Mahapatra, PC Mohapatra, AI Aria… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Piezoelectric materials are widely referred to as “smart” materials because they can
transduce mechanical pressure acting on them to electrical signals and vice versa. They are …

Recent progress on nanocellulose aerogels: preparation, modification, composite fabrication, applications

Y Chen, L Zhang, Y Yang, B Pang, W Xu… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The rapid development of modern industry and excessive consumption of petroleum‐based
polymers have triggered a double crisis presenting a shortage of nonrenewable resources …

Freeze casting: from low‐dimensional building blocks to aligned porous structures—a review of novel materials, methods, and applications

G Shao, DAH Hanaor, X Shen, A Gurlo - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Freeze casting, also known as ice templating, is a particularly versatile technique that has
been applied extensively for the fabrication of well‐controlled biomimetic porous materials …

Review of hydrogels and aerogels containing nanocellulose

KJ De France, T Hoare, ED Cranston - Chemistry of Materials, 2017 - ACS Publications
Naturally derived cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) and cellulose nanofibrils (CNFs) are
emerging nanomaterials that display high strength, high surface area, and tunable surface …

Advanced superhydrophobic and multifunctional nanocellulose aerogels for oil/water separation: A review

J Gao, J Wang, M Cai, Q Xu, J Zhang, X Cao… - Carbohydrate …, 2023 - Elsevier
At present, the research and development of adsorbents for oil/water separation are mostly
focused on polymer materials. The third generation of aerogels are made from …

Recent developments in nanocellulose-based biodegradable polymers, thermoplastic polymers, and porous nanocomposites

H Kargarzadeh, J Huang, N Lin, I Ahmad… - Progress in Polymer …, 2018 - Elsevier
Nanocellulose has generated a great deal of interest as a source of nanometer-sized
reinforcement, because of its good mechanical properties. In the last few years …

Functional materials from nanocellulose: utilizing structure–property relationships in bottom‐up fabrication

K De France, Z Zeng, T Wu, G Nyström - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
It is inherently challenging to recapitulate the precise hierarchical architectures found
throughout nature (such as in wood, antler, bone, and silk) using synthetic bottom‐up …

Anisotropic cellulose nanofiber/chitosan aerogel with thermal management and oil absorption properties

M Zhang, S Jiang, F Han, M Li, N Wang, L Liu - Carbohydrate polymers, 2021 - Elsevier
Attributed to low cost, renewable, and high availability, cellulose-based aerogels are
desirable materials for various applications. However, mechanical robustness and …

[HTML][HTML] Bamboo-inspired mechanically flexible and electrically conductive polydimethylsiloxane foam materials with designed hierarchical pore structures for ultra …

SW Dai, YL Gu, L Zhao, W Zhang, CH Gao… - Composites Part B …, 2021 - Elsevier
Flexible pressure-sensing materials with high sensitivity and good mechanical reliability are
highly required to meet the long-time and accurate detecting requirement for wide-stress …

[HTML][HTML] Review of the recent developments in cellulose nanocomposite processing

K Oksman, Y Aitomäki, AP Mathew, G Siqueira… - Composites Part A …, 2016 - Elsevier
This review addresses the recent developments of the processing of cellulose
nanocomposites, focusing on the most used techniques, including solution casting, melt …