Showing papers in "Green Chemistry in 2022"

TL;DR: In the face of increasingly severe electromagnetic wave (EMW) pollution, the research of biomass-based carbon materials due to the advantages of being green, renewable, environment-friendly, porous and light has become...

TL;DR: Lignin in advanced energy applications: source, extraction methodology, structure/property relationships as mentioned in this paper , Lignin extraction methodolgy, structure and property relationships, etc.

TL;DR: Since the industrial revolution, modern society has experienced rapid technological development, which has greatly increased the demand for energy, and the cheap energy for production will be more and more available as mentioned in this paper .

TL;DR: The life cycle of an ideal green solvent from cradle to grave for sustainability studies of green solvents is described in this article . But the life cycle is not described in detail.

TL;DR: In this paper , the use of lignocellulosic biomass for the production of levulinic acid and levulinates is reviewed and the production processes and their environmental and economic impact are discussed.

TL;DR: 3D printing gave biomedical engineering great potential to mimic native tissues, accelerated regenerative medicine, and enlarged capacity of drug delivery systems; thus, advanced biomimetic functional biomaterial developed by 3D-printing for tissue engineering demands as mentioned in this paper .

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors proposed Catalytic Transfer Hydrogenation (CTH) as a highly attractive approach to achieve biomass-based hydrogenation due to the free of high-pressure fossil-derived H2 and potentially reduced process cost.

TL;DR: The design and synthesis of chemically recyclable polymers, which can be reutilized as their starting monomers or new value-added chemicals, have provided a practical approach to address the end-of-use problem as discussed by the authors .

TL;DR: Furfural is an excellent and green platform chemical for the production of value-added chemicals as discussed by the authors , and it is suitable for use in many applications in the chemical industry.

TL;DR: Less than 10% of the plastics generated globally are recycled, while the rest are incinerated, accumulated in landfills, or leach into the environment as discussed by the authors , while new technologies are emerging to chemically recycle them.

TL;DR: In this article , a facile, economical and environmentally friendly method was proposed to selectively extract lithium from the spent LFP cathode material via air oxidation-water leaching, which was shown to be more efficient than traditional methods.

TL;DR: In this paper , chemical carbon dioxide fixation via cycloaddition with high energy three-member ring compounds such as epoxides is among the most promising pathways to reduce the greenhouse gas emission and reach...

TL;DR: A building block approach, using a variety of benign solvent compositions and additives, offers a continuously developing strategy to render solvent-based electrospinning increasingly sustainable for the generation of polymer nanofibers as mentioned in this paper .

TL;DR: The increasing discharge of metal-associated waste not only causes growing concerns on the environment and human health but also accelerates the depletion of natural metal resources as discussed by the authors , which is a serious concern.

TL;DR: In this paper , an industrial-scale upcycling of waste polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic into porous carbon globally for CO2 capture was verified as a multifunctional alternative to conventional CO2 absorption and plastic waste management technologies.

TL;DR: In this article , a low-cost nonenzymatic protein from defatted milk was proposed to block the lignin-enzyme degradation in pretreated biomass, which significantly hinders the bio-conversion of cellulose into monosaccharides.

TL;DR: In this context, the renaissance of peptides has been discussed in this article , with the aim to transform the industrial landscape, mainly in the pharmaceutical sector, into a long-term, sustainable reality.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors describe the unsustainability of thermmosets because they are difficult to recycle and overdependent on petroleum chemicals, and they have many advantages such as excellent mechanical properties, dimensional stability and environmental resistance.

TL;DR: Lignin was demonstrated to have excellent photothermal performance for smart applications in photo-controlled shape memory, self-healing, photothermal mechanical/electrical conversion, antibacterial materials, etc as discussed by the authors .

TL;DR: In this paper , renewable environmentally friendly polysaccharides and their composites have been critically reviewed for biodegradable food packaging applications, and they have been used in a variety of applications.

TL;DR: In this article , closed-loop recycling of novel thermosets as a closed loop process is proposed, where the closed loop is used to reuse the thermoset when discarded.

TL;DR: Carbon nitride-catalyzed photocatalytic strategies for the oxidation of alcohols, reduction of nitro compounds, coupling reactions, and synthesis of esters, phenols, and sulfoxides have been summarized in this article .

TL;DR: In this paper , the innovational strategies to design P-containing catalysts with enhanced photo-/electro-catalytic water splitting activity are reviewed with respect to phase modifying, foreign elements introducing, morphology tailoring and interface engineering.

TL;DR: In this paper , solar H2 plays a fundamental role in reducing greenhouse gases emissions effect on climate change, which makes carbon-rich fossil fuels replacement an emergency, and solar H 2 plays a key role in this context.

TL;DR: A copper decorated covalent organic framework has been prepared and identified as an efficient heterogeneous photocatalyst for the phosphorylation of terminal alkynes in this paper , which is an important step in our work.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors explore robust and cost-effective electrocatalysts for HMF oxidation for 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) for producing biomass-based valuable chemicals.

TL;DR: In this paper , natural Na12Phy enhanced the property of MAO coatings on Mg alloys and was hydrolyzed from an anti-nutrient into absorbed inorganic phosphates and a series of lower inositol phosphates.

TL;DR: The state-of-the-art recycling approaches for spent lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are described in this article , where the authors propose a recycling approach based on the state of the art.

TL;DR: In this article , the photocatalytic reforming of lignin for H2 evolution can simultaneously coordinate environmental and energy issues, by considering that complex Lignin structure, but photocatalysis activity is still far from necessity.

TL;DR: In this paper , a comprehensive HT-GC × GC FID/MS enables reliable detection and quantification of RCF lignin monomers, dimers and trimers.