| Literature DB >> 33255498 |
Tatiana Budtova1, Daniel Antonio Aguilera1, Sergejs Beluns2, Linn Berglund3, Coraline Chartier1, Eduardo Espinosa4, Sergejs Gaidukovs2, Agnieszka Klimek-Kopyra5, Angelika Kmita6, Dorota Lachowicz6, Falk Liebner7, Oskars Platnieks2, Alejandro Rodríguez4, Lizeth Katherine Tinoco Navarro8, Fangxin Zou1, Sytze J Buwalda1.
Abstract
According to the International Energy Agency, biorefinery is "the sustainable processing of biomass into a spectrum of marketable bio-based products (chemicals, materials) and bioenergy (fuels, power, heat)". In this review, we survey how the biorefinery approach can be applied to highly porous and nanostructured materials, namely aerogels. Historically, aerogels were first developed using inorganic matter. Subsequently, synthetic polymers were also employed. At the beginning of the 21st century, new aerogels were created based on biomass. Which sources of biomass can be used to make aerogels and how? This review answers these questions, paying special attention to bio-aerogels' environmental and biomedical applications. The article is a result of fruitful exchanges in the frame of the European project COST Action "CA 18125 AERoGELS: Advanced Engineering and Research of aeroGels for Environment and Life Sciences".Entities:
Keywords: aerogel; alginate; biomass; carrageenan; cellulose; chitosan; lignocellulose; nanocellulose; pectin; starch
Year: 2020 PMID： 33255498 PMCID： PMC7760295 DOI： 10.3390/polym12122779
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Polymers (Basel) ISSN： 2073-4360 Impact factor: 4.329