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ReviewAdvanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)2021

The Food-Materials Nexus: Next Generation Bioplastics and Advanced Materials from Agri-Food Residues.

Caio G Otoni, Henriette M C Azeredo, Bruno D Mattos, Marco Beaumont, Daniel S Correa, Orlando J Rojas

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In one paragraph

Review in Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
31citing papers in PubMed
9.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed, 166 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 5 institutions in 4 countries.

Caio G OtoniDepartment of Materials Engineering (DEMa), Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), Rod. Washington Luiz, km 235, São Carlos, SP, 13565-905, Brazil.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6734-7381
Henriette M C AzeredoEmbrapa Agroindústria Tropical, Rua Dra. Sara Mesquita 2270, Fortaleza, CE, 60511-110, Brazil.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9295-4682
Bruno D MattosDepartment of Bioproducts and Biosystems, School of Chemical Engineering, Aalto University, P.O. Box 16300, Aalto, Espoo, FIN-00076, Finland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-8677
Marco BeaumontDepartment of Chemistry, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Konrad-Lorenz-Str. 24, Tulln, A-3430, Austria.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2571-497X
Daniel S CorreaNanotechnology National Laboratory for Agriculture (LNNA), Embrapa Instrumentação, Rua XV de Novembro 1452, São Carlos, SP, 13560-970, Brazil.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5592-0627
Orlando J RojasDepartment of Bioproducts and Biosystems, School of Chemical Engineering, Aalto University, P.O. Box 16300, Aalto, Espoo, FIN-00076, Finland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4036-4020
Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation · BRAalto University · FIBOKU University · ATUniversidade Federal de São Carlos · BRUniversity of British Columbia · CA

Funding

Austrian Science Fund FWF J 4356Canada Excellence Research ChairCanada Foundation for InnovationConselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico CNPq/402.287/2013-4European Research Council 2020European Research Council 788489Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo 2017/12174-4Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo 2018/22214-6Rede Agronano-EMBRAPA
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The most recent strategies available for upcycling agri-food losses and waste (FLW) into functional bioplastics and advanced materials are reviewed and the valorization of food residuals are put in perspective, adding to the water-food-energy nexus. Low value or underutilized biomass, biocolloids, water-soluble biopolymers, polymerizable monomers, and nutrients are introduced as feasible building blocks for biotechnological conversion into bioplastics. The latter are demonstrated for their incorporation in multifunctional packaging, biomedical devices, sensors, actuators, and energy conversion and storage devices, contributing to the valorization efforts within the future circular bioeconomy. Strategies are introduced to effectively synthesize, deconstruct and reassemble or engineer FLW-derived monomeric, polymeric, and colloidal building blocks. Multifunctional bioplastics are introduced considering the structural, chemical, physical as well as the accessibility of FLW precursors. Processing techniques are analyzed within the fields of polymer chemistry and physics. The prospects of FLW streams and biomass surplus, considering their availability, interactions with water and thermal stability, are critically discussed in a near-future scenario that is expected to lead to next-generation bioplastics and advanced materials.

Indexed as

BiomassAgricultureBiopolymersFoodFood PackagingPlasticsPolymersBiopolymersPlasticsPolymersbiopolymerscircularityfood lossesfood wastefunctional materialssustainable plasticsupcycling

Identifiers

PMID34510571
PMCPMC11468898
OpenAlexW3200377389

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