With the intensifying global climate crisis and the urgent demand for carbon neutrality, carbon dioxide (CO2) capture technologies have received growing attention as effective strategies for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. Carbon-based porous ma...
Li4Ti5O12 (LTO) is a promising anode material for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) due to its stable reversibility, high-rate cyclability, and high operational potential. On the other hand, it suffers from poor electronic conductivity and low capacitance...
Recent environmental concerns have increased demand for renewable polymers and sustainable green resource usage, such as biomass-derived components and carbon dioxide (CO2). Herein, we present crosslinked polyurethanes (CPUs) fabricated from CO2- and...
Biomass-derived carbons are emerging materials with a wide range of catalytic properties, such as large surface area and porosity, which make them ideal candidates to be used as heterogeneous catalysts and catalytic supports. Their unique physical an...
Biomass resources are excellent candidates for carbon electrode materials due to their abundance, renewability, and biodegradability. Herein, the solanaceous crop Tobacco Straw, a rich agricultural by-product, was utilized to prepare biomass-derived...
As one of the most widely used synthetic polymer materials globally, polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) has exhibited promising application potential, especially in the field of wound dressing. Biomass-derived PVA was successfully developed to address the chall...
Nowadays, the use of biomass to produce cathode materials for lithium–sulfur (Li-S) batteries is an excellent alternative due to its numerous advantages. Generally, biomass-derived materials are abundant, and their production processes are envi...
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are crystalline materials that are formed by self-assembling organic linkers and metal ions with large specific areas and pore volumes. Their chemical tunability, structural diversity, and tailor-ability make the...
In the present study, oyster shells, a cause of environmental pollution, were employed effectively to synthesize hydroxyapatite (HAP) by facile oxidation and phosphorylation. The ability of HAP to adsorb various metal cations and inhibit bacterial gr...
The utilization of triboelectric materials has gained considerable attention in recent years, offering a sustainable approach to energy harvesting and sensing technologies. Biomass-derived materials, owing to their abundance, renewability, and biocom...
Biomass-derived activated carbon is one of the promising electrode materials in supercapacitor applications. In this work bio-waste (oil extracted from eucalyptus leaves) was used as a carbon precursor to synthesize carbon material with ZnCl2 as a ch...
This mini-review emphasizes the potential of biomass-derived materials as sustainable components for next-generation electrochemical energy storage systems. Biomass obtained from abundant and renewable natural resources can be transformed into carbon...
Compared with currently prevailing Li-ion technologies, sodium-ion energy storage devices play a supremely important role in grid-scale storage due to the advantages of rich abundance and low cost of sodium resources. As one of the crucial components...
Biomass-derived carbon materials (BDCMs) have garnered numerous research interests due to their conspicuous electrochemical merits, which makes them promising candidates for electrode modification materials in electrochemical sensors. This review foc...
The large availability of biomass, which, for the sake of decarbonization, is not supposed to be disposed of by burning and energy recovery, has led to the increasing production of polymer composites containing biomass-derived materials. The automoti...
The adverse effects of UV (ultraviolet) radiation on polymeric materials and organic constituents can damage the molecular structure of human skin and polymeric materials, resulting in their degradation. Therefore, additives or reagents for UV-shield...
Batteries are the backbones of the sustainable energy transition for stationary off-grid, portable electronic devices, and plug-in electric vehicle applications. Both lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) and sodium-ion batteries (NIBs), most commonly rely on...
This review focuses on functional materials that contain terpyridine (terpy) units, which can be synthesized from biomass-derived platform chemicals. The latter are obtained by the chemical conversion of raw biopolymers such as cellulose (e.g., 2-fur...
Lithium–sulfur batteries (LSBs) with a high energy density have been regarded as a promising energy storage device to harness unstable but clean energy from wind, tide, solar cells, and so on. However, LSBs still suffer from the disadvantages o...
Direct Air Capture (DAC) is gaining worldwide attention as a negative emissions strategy critical to meeting climate targets. Among emerging DAC materials, pyrolysis chars (PCs) and gasification chars (GCs) derived from biomass present a promising pa...
Electrochemical energy storage (EES) systems are attracting research attention as an alternative to fossil fuels. Advances in the design and composition of energy storage materials are particularly significant. Biomass waste-derived porous carbons ar...
The widespread use of electronic devices in daily life, industry and military has led to a large amount of electromagnetic pollution, which has become an increasingly serious security issue. To eliminate or mitigate such risks and hazards, various ad...
In spite of the widespread range of hydrogen applications as one of the greenest energy vectors, its transportation and storage still remain among the main concerns to be solved in order to definitively kickstart a rapid takeoff of a sustainable H2 e...
Using biomass-derived hard carbon materials as anode materials for sodium-ion batteries has facilitated resource recycling and brought significant economic benefits. However, the main obstacles to the large-scale application of these materials are th...
The exploration of cost-effective and sustainable biomass-derived carbon materials as electrodes for energy conversion and storage has gained extensive attention in recent research studies. However, the selection of the biomass and the electrochemica...
Mass spectrometry (MS) is a powerful analytical technique that is widely used to characterize a variety of analytes across diverse fields. In the area of biomass conversion, which is essential for producing sustainable materials and energy, the role...
Biomass-derived carbons are very attractive materials due to the possibility of tuning their properties for different energy-related applications. Various pore sizes, conductivities and the inherent presence of heteroatoms make them attractive for di...
Biomass-derived carbon materials (BDCs) are highly regarded for their renewability, environmental friendliness, and broad potential for application. A significant advantage of these materials lies in the high degree of customization of their physical...
Polymers from biomass waste including plant/forest waste, biological industrial process waste, municipal solid waste, algae, and livestock are potential sources for renewable and sustainable resources. Converting biomass-derived polymers to functiona...
The present work explores in detail the effect of alkaline-basic electrolytes on the capacitance performance of biomass-derived carbonaceous materials used as electrodes in symmetric supercapacitors. The proof-of-concept is demonstrated by two commer...
The ever-increasing energy demand and global warming caused by fossil fuels push for the exploration of sustainable and eco-friendly energy sources. Waste thermal energy has been considered as one of the promising candidates for sustainable power gen...
Carbon materials are widely used in catalysis as effective catalyst supports. Carbon supports can be produced from coal, organic precursors, biomass, and polymer wastes. Biomass is one of the promising sources used to produce carbon-based materials w...
New porous activated carbons with a high surface area as an anode material for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) were synthesized by a one-step, sustainable, and environmentally friendly method. Four chemical activators—H2SO4, H3PO4, KOH, and ZnCl2&...
This study presents a novel approach for synthesizing porous silica materials using various biomass-derived carboxylic acids as non-surfactant, eco-friendly porogens. Different carboxylic acids were selected, and their influence on the properties of...
Modern research has made the search for high-performance, sustainable, and efficient energy storage technologies a main focus, especially in light of the growing environmental and energy-demanding issues. This review paper focuses on the pivotal role...
Avocado is a rich source of numerous nutrients, such as micro- and macroelements, essential unsaturated fatty acids, and vitamins essential for the correct functioning of the body. Consequently, its consumption has significantly increased in recent y...
The global freshwater scarcity crisis demands sustainable solutions aligned with circular economy principles. Solar-driven steam generation (SSG) has emerged as a promising approach to obtain freshwater from seawater or wastewater using solar energy....
Water-developable photoresist was synthesized by introducing methacrylate groups into hydroxypropyl cellulose (HPC), a cellulose derivative, via substitution of hydroxyl groups. The material enabled micropatterning through ultraviolet (UV) exposure a...
The global transition to renewable energy has amplified the need for sustainable aviation fuels. This study investigates hexanol, a biomass-derived alcohol, as an alternative fuel for small-scale gas turbines. Experimental trials were conducted on a...
The aim of the study was to characterize and compare films made of cellulose nanocrystals (CNC), nano-fibrils (CNF), and bacterial nanocellulose (BNC) in combination with chitosan and alginate in terms of applicability for potential food packaging ap...
This review explores the current state and future potential of bioplastics as sustainable alternatives to conventional fossil-based polymers. It provides a detailed examination of the classification, molecular structures, and synthetic routes of majo...
Carbon dots (CDs) have emerged as promising nanomaterials for optical sensing due to their outstanding photoluminescence, chemical stability, and biocompatibility. In recent years, the development of sustainable CDs derived from biomass—particu...
The transition from fossil resources to renewable biomass for the production of valuable chemicals and biobased fuels is a crucial step towards carbon neutrality. Squalene, a valuable chemical extensively used in the energy, healthcare, and pharmaceu...
Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) are in the spotlight because of their potential use in large-scale energy storage devices due to the abundance and low cost of sodium-based materials. There are many SIB cathode materials under investigation but only a few...
The depletion of global lithium reserves, coupled with the necessity for environmentally sustainable and economically accessible energy storage systems, has driven the development of sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) as a promising alternative to lithium-i...
Increasing energy demands exacerbated by energy shortages have highlighted the urgency of research on renewable energy technologies. Carbon materials that can be employed as advanced electrodes and catalysts can increase the accessibility of efficien...
Lithium ion (Li-ion) batteries have been widely applied to portable electronic devices and hybrid vehicles. In order to further enhance performance, the search for advanced anode materials to meet the growing demand for high-performance Li-ion batter...
There is a strong public concern about plastic waste, which promotes the development of new biobased materials. The benefit of using microbial biomass for new developments is that it is a completely renewable source of polymers, which is not limited...
Although microbial fuel cells (MFCs) have been developed over the past decade, they still have a low power production bottleneck for practical engineering due to the ineffective interfacial bioelectrochemical reaction between exoelectrogens and anode...
This work used activated carbon material obtained by chemical activation of abundantly available agricultural sunflower waste residues to remove metol (4-(methylamino) phenol sulfate, MTL) from aqueous solutions. The adsorbent structure was character...
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