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ReviewAdvanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)2022

Fiber-Based Biopolymer Processing as a Route toward Sustainability.

Chunmei Li, Junqi Wu, Haoyuan Shi, Zhiyu Xia, Jugal Kishore Sahoo, Jingjie Yeo, David L Kaplan

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In one paragraph

Review in Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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29citing papers in PubMed
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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

29 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Ionic Conductive Textiles for Wearable Technology.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2025
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  15. pH-Responsive Cellulose/Silk/FeGels (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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  18. Fabrication of Advanced Cellulosic Triboelectric Materials via Dielectric Modulation.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2023
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  20. FeScientific reports · 2023
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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

7 authors.

Chunmei LiDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, MA, 02155, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5666-8435
Junqi WuDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, MA, 02155, USA.
Haoyuan ShiSibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA.
Zhiyu XiaDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, MA, 02155, USA.
Jugal Kishore SahooDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, MA, 02155, USA.
Jingjie YeoSibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA.
David L KaplanDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, MA, 02155, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9245-7774

Funding

Tissue Engineering Resource Center: TTDP41EB027062 · NIBIB · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic · 2019 to 2026
$12.6M
AFOSR FA9550-20-1-0363NIBIB NIH HHS P41 EB027062NIH HHS P41EB027062
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Some of the most abundant biomass on earth is sequestered in fibrous biopolymers like cellulose, chitin, and silk. These types of natural materials offer unique and striking mechanical and functional features that have driven strong interest in their utility for a range of applications, while also matching environmental sustainability needs. However, these material systems are challenging to process in cost-competitive ways to compete with synthetic plastics due to the limited options for thermal processing. This results in the dominance of solution-based processing for fibrous biopolymers, which presents challenges for scaling, cost, and consistency in outcomes. However, new opportunities to utilize thermal processing with these types of biopolymers, as well as fibrillation approaches, can drive renewed opportunities to bridge this gap between synthetic plastic processing and fibrous biopolymers, while also holding sustainability goals as critical to long-term successful outcomes.

Indexed as

cellulosefibrous biopolymersprocessingsilksustainabilitythermal processing

Identifiers

PMID34647374
PMCPMC8741650

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