Wood-Based Nanofunctional Polymeric Materials
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Smart and Functional Polymers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (5 June 2023) | Viewed by 5173
Special Issue Editors
Interests: wood functional materials; nanofunctional materials; nanocellulose; aerogel; natural polymer
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Wood-based materials are natural and environmentally friendly, offering benefits such as large natural reserves, natural degradation, carbon fixation, renewable, and green pollution-free. As a kind of natural renewable resource, the functional composite of wood-based materials is a novel way of improving their performance. Wood-based nanofunctional composites are a successful example of wood-based functional materials expanding to the frontier field of nanotechnology, their unique properties and functions making them a hot spot in wood science research.
Wood-based nanofunctional polymeric materials generally include two meanings. One is wood-based nanocellulose functional materials, that is, taking nanocellulose as the matrix; then, compounds with photoelectric or magnetic biomarkers are grafted onto the hydroxyl of nanocellulose by chemical bonding to prepare nanocellulose functional materials modified by functional groups, or through physical mixing, after which the nanocellulose functional materials are obtained by compounding with organic and inorganic nanofunctional materials in the form of a hydrogen bond. The second is nanofunctional composite wood; the composite material is obtained by combining organic and inorganic nanofunctional materials with wood through physical or chemical combination, in order to improve the performance and add value to traditional wood. Wood can be natural without the application of any treatment, chemically treated (e.g., delignification), or nanofunctional units (e.g., fibers, shavings, veneer, etc.).
This Special Issue titled “Wood-Based Nanofunctional Polymeric Materials” focuses on innovative wood-based nanofunctional materials with special properties, such as acoustics, conductivity, energy storage, electromagnetic shielding, flame retardance, luminescence, fluorescence, thermochromism, photochromism, superhydrophobic, adsorption, oil-water separation, catalysis, etc. We are pleased to invite you to contribute your latest research to this Special Issue in the form of complete research articles, letters, communications, or reviews.
Dr. Shaoyi Lyu
Dr. Longfei Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- wood-based nanofunctional composites
- nanocellulose functional materials
- wood nanomodification
- nanotechnology and nanomaterials for wood
- conductivity
- energy storage
- electromagnetic shielding
- flame retardance
- superhydrophobic
- luminescence
- fluorescence
- photocatalysis
- pollutant treatment
- recycling
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