Composites of nanocellulose with layered silicates have recently emerged as a new type of composite materials offering superior strength, as well as thermal and gas barrier properties. These organic-inorganic hybrid composites with a nacre-like structure can be obtained from renewable resources and are environmentally friendly. They can potentially be presented as a serious alternative in the n...

Packaging waste forms a significant part of municipal solid waste and has caused increasing environmental concerns, resulting in a strengthening of various regulations aimed at reducing the amounts generated. Among other materials, a wide range of oil-based polymers is currently used in packaging applications. These are virtually all non-biodegradable, and some are difficult to recycle or reuse...

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Key Laboratory of New Materials and Facilities for Rural Renewable Energy, Ministry of Agriculture, Collaborative Innovation Center of Biomass Energy, College of Mechanical & Electrical Engineering, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China; [email protected] (Y.J.); [email protected] (C.T.); [email protected] (Z.W.) * Correspondence: [email protected] (C.H.); izziezzp...

Chitosan, the only alkaline polysaccharide in nature with rich nitrogen content, is used as the sole precursor to obtain N-doped graphitic carbon-based ORR electrocatalysts. The findings of this work demonstrate that cheap, plentiful and renewable biomasses can be transformed into high value functional carbon materials.

Alkali-Assisted, Atmospheric Plasma Production of Titania Nanowire Powders and Arrays Vivekanand Kumar, Jeong H. Kim, Jacek B. Jasinski, Ezra L. Clark, and Mahendra K. Sunkara* ConnCenter for Renewable EnergyResearch andChemical EngineeringDepartment, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292,United States Advanced Energy Materials, LLC, 201 East Jefferson Street, Louisville, Kentucky 4020...

1. Applications include (inter alia) renewable biofuels, pharmaceuticals, technical materials, nuclear waste disposal, chemical detoxification, superefficient agriculture, energy harvesting and conversion, and geoengineering. Creating a so-called ‘minimal microbe’ template could streamline the design of biological systems or their components, which could then be engineered for a host of special...

Ingwald Obernberger, Graz University of Technology, Austria Friedrich Biedermann, Thomas Brunner, Bioenergy 2020+ GmbH, Austria Olli Sippula, Jorma Jokiniemi, University of Eastern Finland Christoffer Boman, Umeå University, Sweden Fredrik Niklasson, Linda Bäfver, SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden Hans Hartmann, Technology and Support Centre of Renewable Raw Materials, Germany John Finn...