Lignin-Based Functional Materials
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Smart and Functional Polymers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 June 2025 | Viewed by 419
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As the demand for sustainable and green manufacturing continues to grow in the functional materials sector, manufacturers are exploring renewable, biocompatible, and biodegradable resources as an alternative to petrochemical resources for the preparation of advanced materials. Lignin is a type of important and sustainable plant biomass resource, which possesses many remarkable features such as ultraviolet-shielding properties, photothermal conversion capability, antioxidant properties, and fluorescence performance. Recent advancements have demonstrated the promising potential of lignin-based functional materials in the energy, optical, biological, architecture, and cosmetics fields.
This Special Issue focuses on the novel achievements in the fundamental science, manufacturing technology, structural design and regulation, characterization, and application of lignin-based functional materials. Research studies in which sufficiently significant scientific innovations about lignin-based materials are involved are encouraged to submit their work, in the form of a review, research article, or communication, for publication in this Special Issue of Polymers.
Dr. Jingyu Wang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- lignin
- functional materials
- nanoparticles
- polymers
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