Biomass-Derived Materials: Synthesis and Applications
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2024 | Viewed by 3115
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the 1990s, Anastas and Warner introduced the twelve principles of green chemistry as a set of guidelines to make chemical processes more sustainable. One of these principles is the use of renewable feedstocks, such as biomass, as a source of chemicals and materials. Biomass-derived materials can be raw materials extracted from biomass (such as biopolymers for example), materials obtained by means of the chemical modification of these raw materials and materials obtained from biomass-derived synthons (small molecules such as furan-derivatives for example) through synthesis. They find applications in many fields, such as medicine (e.g., drug delivery systems), consumer goods (e.g., packaging films), materials for water treatment (e.g., adsorbents for pollutants) or as catalysts, just to name a few. Owing to the vast molecular diversity of biomass-derived materials and molecules, there is no doubt that these renewable chemicals will be increasingly significant in the future of chemical and industrial processes. This Special Issue of the International Journal of Material Science will focus on such new biomass-derived materials, and we are seeking contributions underlying the recent findings in this field.
Dr. Jérôme Husson
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biomass
- biomass-derived synthons
- renewable chemicals
- biopolymers
- materials for water treatment
- catalysts
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