Abstract Nowadays, diverse leather usage conditions and increasing demands from consumers challenge the industry. Traditional manufacturing is facing long-term challenges, including low-value threshold, confined application fields, environmental issues. Leather inherits all biomimetic properties of natural skin such as flexibility, sanitation, cold resistance, biocompatibility, biodegradability...

The article presents the latest solutions for sustainable flexible packaging materials, covering articles published in 2017–2022. Discussed, among others bio-based, biodegradable, and recycled polymers, paper, which are slowly being adopted by industry expected to replace traditional materials from non-renewable sources coming years.

It is well known that a circular hole in a blanket thin film causes strain concentration near the hole edge when the thin film is under tension. The increased strain level can be as high as three times of the applied tension. Interestingly, we show that, by suitably patterning an array of circular holes in a thin film, the resulting strain in the patterned film can be decreased to only a fracti...

Densified Biomass Solid Fuel (DBSF) is a typical solid form of biomass, using agricultural and forestry residues as raw materials. DBSF utilization is considered to be an alternative to fossil energy, like coal in China, associated with a reduction of environmental pollution. China has abundant biomass resources and is suitable to develop DBSF. Until now, a number of policies aimed at fostering...

In order to increase the use of biogas plants in Korea, a farm-scale biogas plant with a working volume of 200 m was constructed at the pig farm in Sung Hwan, Korea as a demonstration project supported by the Korean government. This plant mainly consists of an anaerobic digester processing daily 10 m pig manure and a dual-fuel engine-generator to produce heat and electricity. Digestion takes pl...

This overview describes different technologies and developments over the past few decades that have been used in the production of textile-based flexible displays and screens. The paper covers textile displays based on optical fibres for the use in communicative clothing, fashion or medical applications; large flexible screens based on flexible ribbons and LEDs to make or to create communicativ...