Cellulose ionogels: Recent advancement in material, design, performance and applications
Available online 5 December 2024
•Cellulose-based ionogels are essential for developing flexible electronics.•Cellulose types, gel mechanism, and applications of inongels are presented.•Suggesting directions focus on performance enhancement...
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Essential strategies for efficient low–tar biomass gasification: in-bed intensification and interactive two–stage reactions
Available online 19 November 2024
•Low-tar biomass gasification is reanalyzed in terms of reaction intensification and decoupling.•Progress of low-tar biomass gasification from single-stage to decoupling process is reviewed.•Intensification...
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Performance of high-energy storage activated carbon derived from olive pomace biomass as an anode material for sustainable lithium-ion batteries
Available online 8 November 2024
•Olive pomace biomass-derived activated carbon for lithium-ion batteries.•Activated Carbon prepared using H3PO4 as a chemical activation agent.•Activated carbon calcinated under different controlled...
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Recent advances of sustainable and recyclable polymer materials from renewable resources
Available online 29 October 2024
•Use of renewable biomass resources instead of fossil resources for the preparation of polymer materials.•The physical and chemical cycling of cross-linked network polymers is achieved through dynamic...
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Functionalized lignin nanoparticles prepared by high shear homogenization for all green and barrier-enhanced paper packaging
September 2024
•Significantly improves the water and oil repellency of the paper and reduces the water vapor transmission rate.•Lignin nanoparticles were prepared by a simple method.•Enhanced barrier properties using...
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Biochemical, functional and antioxidant potential of higher fungi cultivated on agro-industrial residues. Part II: Cultures on mixtures of spent mushroom substrates and mushroom cropping by-products
September 2024
•Agro-industrial waste such as SMSs and PW used as substrates for second-cycle crops of P. ostreatus and P. eryngii mushrooms enhanced their nutritional value.•The high nutritional value was maintained...
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Research progress of MOF electrochromic materials
September 2024
•Summarize the principle of MOF color change.•Summarized the current problems in MOF electrochromism.•Analyzed the current ligand types in the field of MOF electrochromism.•Prospects and challenges...
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A review of cathode and electrolyte recovery from spent lithium-ion batteries: Recent technologies, processes and policies
September 2024
•Technologies for cathode and electrolyte recovery from spent lithium-ion batteries are reviewed.•Various national polices and regulations on battery recycling are summarized.•Practical industrial recycling...
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Highly efficient isomerization of glucose to fructose over Sn-doped silica nanotube
June 2024
•This work provides a highly efficient catalyst for the isomerization of glucose to fructose.•By a post-synthesis method, Sn containing non-crystalline silica nanotube (Sn-SNT) was synthesized in this...
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Rational design of photofunctional dyes BODIPYs/aza-BODIPYs and applications for photocatalysis, photoelectric conversion and thermochromic materials
June 2024
•Structurally tuned BODIPYs/aza-BODIPYs are photofunctional dyes.•Triplet BODIPYs/aza-BODIPYs are employed in photocatalytic field.•BODIPYs/aza-BODIPYs capture the photons for photovoltaic conversion.•BODIPYs/aza-BODIPYs...
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Biomass carbon materials for high-performance secondary battery electrodes: A review
June 2024
•The recent advances on bio-based carbon electrodes were reviewed.•The preparation approaches of biomass carbon materials were described.•The properties and application of biomass carbons in batteries...
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Major challenges and recent advances in characterizing biomass thermochemical reactions
June 2024
•Thermochemical conversion reactions of biomass are of great complexity and diversity.•Thermal analysis techniques vary with the sample loading and heating methods.•Each analysis reactor has its advantages...
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Deactivation mechanism of CaO in a flow type dimethyl carbonate synthesis process
March 2024
It is well known that calcium oxide (CaO) has better catalytic efficiency than most heterogeneous catalysts in many transesterification reactions. However, the gradual deactivation problem prevents...
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