Transforming lignin into value-added products: Perspectives on lignin chemistry, lignin-based biocomposites, and pathways for augmenting ligninolytic enzyme …

S Rath, D Pradhan, H Du, S Mohapatra… - … Composites and Hybrid …, 2024 - Springer
Lignin is a promising biopolymer abundantly used in industrially valued biobased products.
But the resilient nature of lignin reinforces difficulties during its depolymerization, leading to …

Strengthening soybean protein adhesive anti-mildew properties: Design strategies, enhancing mechanisms and application potential studies

J Shao, X Li, JT Aladejana, S Chen, J Li - Materials Today Communications, 2023 - Elsevier
The soybean protein-based adhesives have recently attracted much attention from
industrialists and researchers for their low cost, non-toxicity, biodegradability, and ease of …

Fabrication of environmentally, high-strength, fire-retardant biocomposites from small-diameter wood lignin in situ reinforced cellulose matrix

Y Yang, L Zhang, JJ Zhang, Y Ren, HF Huo… - … Composites and Hybrid …, 2023 - Springer
An efficient way to alleviate the pollution imposed by petroleum-based supplies like
synthetic fibres and plastics is to prepare biocomposites from recyclable forestry waste with …

Hydrothermally synthesized ZnO-RGO-PPy for water-borne epoxy nanocomposite coating with anticorrosive reinforcement

Q Zhu, Y Zhao, B Miao, HM Abo-Dief, M Qu… - Progress in Organic …, 2022 - Elsevier
Waterborne epoxy (WEP) nanocomposite coating with hydrothermal synthesized zinc oxide
(ZnO)-reduced graphene oxide (RGO)-polypyrrole (PPy) was prepared and an enhanced …

Enhanced electromagnetic wave absorption, thermal conductivity and flame retardancy of BCN@ LDH/EP for advanced electronic packing materials

Y Qian, Y Luo, Y Li, T **ong, L Wang, W Zhang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
The limited functionalization of current electronic packaging materials has restricted their
use in advanced smart electronic devices with high energy density and low signal delay. In …

Flame retardant, toughened, reinforced, transparent and long shelf-life one-component epoxy resins via a P/N/Si-containing hyperbranched polymer

M Chai, H Liu, Y Wu, K Xue, P Zhang, L Liu… - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
One-component epoxy resins (OCEPs) cured from latent imidazole-based curing agents that
exhibit high toughness, high strength, high fire safety, long shelf life, low dielectric properties …

Degradable bio-based fluorinated epoxy resin with excellent flame-retardant, dielectric, hydrophobic, and mechanical properties

Z Wang, G Hou, J **e, Z Zhang, X Zhang… - Advanced Composites and …, 2023 - Springer
One of the trendiest subjects is the production of multifunctional polymers with
hydrophobicity, fire resistance, dielectric characteristics, degradability, and recyclability from …

Activation of inert triethylene tetramine-cured epoxy by sub-critical water decomposition

X Gong, Y Liu, MM Ibrahim, H Zhang, MA Amin… - Reactive and Functional …, 2023 - Elsevier
Cured epoxy is stable and difficult to be recycled. To make the inert cured epoxy and its
derivatives or composites reactive is still a challenge. In this study, sub-critical water was …

Thermally recyclable and reprocessable glass fiber reinforced high performance thermosetting polyurethane vitrimer composites

C Huyan, D Liu, C Pan, D Wang, Z Guo, X Zhang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Glass fiber reinforced polymer composites (GFRPCs) based on thermoset polymer have
been deployed in a variety of industrial sectors. However, a major drawback of thermoset …

Stepwise assembling manganese dioxide nanosheets and metal-organic frameworks on carbon fiber for deriving desirable mechanical properties and flame …

M Zhao, Q Qu, N Guo, Z Sun, K Wang… - Advanced Composites and …, 2023 - Springer
High fire hazard leads to an obstacle for the further application of carbon fiber (CF)
reinforced epoxy resin (EP). Herein, a hierarchical structure consisting of manganese …