Advanced Leather and By-Product Processing for Sustainable Industry
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomaterials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2025 | Viewed by 714
Special Issue Editors
Interests: leather science and technology; collagen and keratin based by-products; biomaterials; nanomaterials and advanced materials application; natural extracts and products; nonconventional technologies
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Interests: sustainability; circular economy; leather science and technology; biomaterials
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Dear Colleagues,
Leather industry represents the oldest activity related to material creation: manufacturing a by-product of food industry. Irreplaceable by synthetic or natural/synthetic materials, leather has unique breathable and mechanical properties that make it versatile and useful in the production of footwear, garments, bags, furniture or airplane upholstery. There are many aspects of leather science and technology that need to be researched with regard to the interaction of chemical materials with collagen structure: the identification of more ecological alternatives to chemical auxiliaries and processes, the identification of potentially harmful substances, the assessment of leather’s biodegradability at its end of life, smart new functionalities of leathers, advanced materials made from leather industry by-products, etc.
We are pleased to invite you to submit papers and reviews in the area of leather material and by-product processing:
Ecological materials and processes for leather manufacturing;
Investigations into leather structures and materials;
Protein (collagen; keratin) processing using leather-industry by-products;
Smart new functionalities of leather;
Leather and chemical biodegradability;
Analyses of the environmental impacts of leather and chemical products;
Bioactive collagen- and/or keratin-based new materials;
Leather-industry by-product recirculation;
Other topics related to leather and leather by-product processing.
Dr. Carmen Gaidău
Prof. Dr. Anna Bacardit
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- leather
- protein by-products
- collagen
- keratin
- ecological leather
- ecological processes for leather
- smart leather
- by-product recirculation
- LCA
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