Journal
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
Volume 157, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2022.112074
Keywords
Functionalized wood; Advanced materials; Water filtration and purification; Structural engineering materials; Energy storage materials; Transparent wood; Sustainability; And feasibility
Funding
- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's AgriScience Program through the BioMass Canada
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Henan Outstanding Foreign Scientists' Workroom [GZS2018004]
- Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) [88881.174355/2018-01]
- CONACyT-SENER
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Due to its unique structure, wood can be used as a template to create bio-based advanced materials for various applications. It is not only a renewable and sustainable source of energy and materials, but can also be functionalized for water filtration, structural engineering, energy storage, and energy-efficient buildings. This review compares the properties of functionalized wood materials with other conventional and emerging synthetic materials, and discusses the challenges and potential of these novel bio-based advanced materials.
Due to millions of years of natural evolution, wood has a unique structure that has inspired many researchers to use it as a template to create bio-based advanced materials for various applications. Apart from being a renewable and sustainable source of energy and materials, such as pulp and paper, the wood structure can be functionalized through different methodologies to be applied as advanced materials for water filtration and purification, structural engineering, energy storage, and energy-efficient buildings. The renewable aspect is an intrinsic advantage to wood-based advanced materials; however, this is not the only attribute necessary for the commercial development of novel materials: their properties must reach the minimum requirements of the target applications. In this review, the properties of functionalized wood materials are compared with those of other conventional and emerging synthetic materials, and their potential in various applications as advanced materials is analyzed. Furthermore, challenges with sustainability, feasibility, and preparation of functionalized wood are discussed, suggesting a need for the future development of these novel bio-based advanced materials.
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