Biobased plastics and bionanocomposites: Current status and future opportunities

Researchers have recently focused on the advancement of new materials from biorenewable and sustainable sources because of great concerns about the environment, waste accumulation and destruction, and the inevitable depletion of fossil resources. Biorenewable materials have been extensively used as a matrix or reinforcement in many applications. In the development of innovative methods and materials, composites offer important advantages because of their excellent properties such as ease of fabrication, higher mechanical properties, high thermal stability, and many more. Especially, nanocomposites (obtained by using biorenewable sources) have significant advantages when compared to conventional composites. Nanocomposites have been utilized in many applications including food, biomedical, electroanalysis, energy storage, wastewater treatment, automotive, etc. This comprehensive review provides chemistry, structures, advanced applications, and recent developments about nanocomposites obtained from biorenewable sources.

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Chemistry, Structures, and Advanced Applications of Nanocomposites from Biorenewable Resources.

Analyzing nanomaterial bioconjugates: a review of current and emerging purification and characterization techniques.

Intercalation of drugs in layered double hydroxides and their controlled release: A review

Nanostructured hybrids derived from clays are materials of increasing interest based on both structural characteristics and functional applications, including environmental and biomedical uses. This review introduces some recent examples of nanostructured clay derivatives (organoclays) useful as adsorbents or photocatalysts for environmental applications such as the removal of pollutants or development of environmentally oriented pesticide formulations. The second group of nanostructured materials considered here are related to the so-called bio-nanohybrids, formed by combination of an inorganic solid (clay mineral) with organic entities from biological origin at the nanometric scale. Bionanocomposites are an emerging group of nanomaterials resulting from the assembly of different clay minerals and biopolymers. Among the proposed applications, the development of novel hybrid materials for scaffolds and regenerative medicine, as well as new substrates to immobilize biological species from enzymes to viruses, is notable. Hybrid materials based on layered double hydroxides are receiving special attention in view of the possible applications as drug delivery systems.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Giora_Rytwo/publication/233733191_ChemInform_Abstract_Hybrid_Materials_Based_on_Clays_for_Environmental_and_Biomedical_Applications/links/53d34a6e0cf228d363e97449.pdf

C. Ribeiro

Papers

Nanocomposites coated with xyloglucan for drug delivery: In vitro studies.