Themed collection Topic highlight: Sustainable materials

Plastics in oral healthcare: innovations to move away from landfills to create value and sustainable care.

We need a paradigm shift towards prevention-based risk governance of chemicals and advanced materials via a transition towards SSbD. Defining SSbD metrics and trade-offs should be a co-creative process and can benefit from applying digital tools.

Enabling the design of silica materials with ordered and controllable pore structure using the principles of green and sustainable chemistry.

Current European (EU) policies, such as the Green Deal, envisage safe and sustainable by design (SSbD) practices for the management of chemicals, which cogently entail nanomaterials (NMs) and advanced materials (AdMa).

The review covers the advancements in bio-based polycarbonates with regards to their raw materials, polymerization techniques, and modification strategies.

This tutorial mini-review gives critical insight into sustainable strategies to prepare ordered mesoporous hierarchically structured nanoporous carbons from biosourced compounds. Modified soft-templating methods are proposed as promising candidates.

Rare Earths (REs) are referred to as ‘industrial vitamins’ and play an indispensable role in a variety of domains.

This work examines the process of using lignocellulosic biomass for cost-effective polyhydroxyalkanoate production, from pre-treatment to extraction.

In the contemporary world, evolution of the scientific field has reached an elevation but has its own intricacies.

The extraction of cellulose was optimized using only hypochlorite and characterized and then utilized as a filler in glass ionomer cement where its strength and elasticity were studied.

A full optimization of the reaction conditions for the high degree of functionalization of olive wood shell stone (OS) with silanes of different nature has been conducted.

Sustainable vertically aligned graphene is grown on soda lime with an orange oil precursor, then utilized as a humidity sensor.

Optical microscope image of castor oil biobased foam.

Plant-derived lignin nanoparticles produced through a self-assembly method show selective toxicity against Gram-positive bacteria.

Single-atom catalysts (SACs) have gained notable attention for the degradation of organic contaminants in water.

A series of bisphenols were efficiently prepared from bio-based hydroxycinnamic acids via thermal decarboxylation followed by [Ru]-catalyzed olefin metathesis.

An endoprotease and a lipase were used together for enzymatic treatment of waste salmon frames to produce hydroxyapatite. This environmentally friendly treatment uses mild conditions readily employable in seafood processing plants.

A detailed description of the CGBT nanocomposite synthesis and photocatalytic mechanism for pentachlorophenol.

Limonene from citrus peel waste is applied as a renewable expander molecule for the synthesis of large-mesopore templated silica. Comparative life cycle assessment with the conventional expander TMB demonstrates the lower environmental impact.

Green chemistry afforded modification of chitosan to afford solid phase extraction of arsenic with unique adsorbent properties and sustainability.

Cellulose nanofibers have been prepared directly from rice biomass with green solvent DES for graphene/CNF composite electrodes of high-performance supercapacitors.

Raw short wood fibres generally showed better mechanical performance than long ones. Alkaline treatment did not improve the mechanical properties of the composites after reactive extrusion and injection moulding.

New copper(II) coordination compounds bearing ammonia and carboxylate ligands were assembled, fully characterized, and applied as antimicrobial dopants for producing sustainable starch-based biopolymeric films with remarkable antibacterial activity.

Environmental contamination with bisphenol A (BPA), produced via degradation of plastic waste, can be disintegrated to monoaryls by its reaction with elemental sulfur.

Novel thermoresponsive biobased soap gels are formulated from waste fats and oils to prevent their disposal and mitigate their environmental impacts.

This work demonstrates the feasibility of aliphatic dicarbamate PCMs as inexpensive, stable and sustainable materials for the storage of renewable energy in the “Thermal Battery”.

Upon alloy Pt with tin significant improvement in fuel cell performance is achieved.

Aerogels and cryogels were obtained from cellulose-based textile waste.

A new recyclability path for unusable textiles are processed into electronic textiles. These materials can be implemented into such applications as energy harvesting or sensing devices that can be worn as demonstrated by our smart mask.

Furan based building blocks have potential of introducing new commodity chemicals at low cost with low carbon impact.

Smart wearable electronics are now of great significance in the fields of biomedical applications and environmental sensors.

Aluminates have been used as synthetic inorganic pigments due to their structural stability.