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Bio-Based Materials: Contribution to Advancing Circular Economy
Special Issue Information
This Special Issue will focus on manuscripts dealing with the development of sustainable materials from renewable resources. Sustainable materials include waste-derived, recyclable, and biodegradable materials. The Special Issue will deal with reviews, new concept ideas, and basic research and developmental manuscripts on the following topics:
- Waste residues from agro-waste, food industry, etc. as a feedstock and converting to value-added products;
- Processing, morphology, structure, properties, and applications of waste derived chemicals and bio-based products;
- Renewable carbon-based technologies for the chemicals and plastics industry;
- Manufacturing, characterization, chemical, and physical modification and engineering of bio-based products;
- Sustainable utilization and conversion of recycled plastic waste to functional products;
- Biodegradation studies in bio-based materials;
- Sustainable materials and technologies for implementation of a circular economy.
Keywords
- bio-based materials
- biopolymers
- waste
- recycling
- circular economy
- nanocellulose
- natural fibers
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