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Recent strides toward transforming lignin into plastics and aqueous electrolytes for flow batteries.

Omar Y Abdelaziz, Mariona Battestini Vives, Smita V Mankar, Niklas Warlin, Tran Tam Nguyen, Baozhong Zhang, Christian P Hulteberg, Amirreza Khataee

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Review in iScience, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Omar Y AbdelazizDepartment of Chemical Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia.
Mariona Battestini VivesDivision of Chemical Engineering, Department of Process and Life Science Engineering, Lund University, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden.
Smita V MankarCentre for Analysis and Synthesis, Department of Chemistry, Lund University, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden.
Niklas WarlinCentre for Analysis and Synthesis, Department of Chemistry, Lund University, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden.
Tran Tam NguyenCentre for Analysis and Synthesis, Department of Chemistry, Lund University, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden.
Baozhong ZhangCentre for Analysis and Synthesis, Department of Chemistry, Lund University, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden.
Christian P HultebergDivision of Chemical Engineering, Department of Process and Life Science Engineering, Lund University, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden.
Amirreza KhataeeDivision of Applied Electrochemistry, Department of Chemical Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lignin is an abundant polyaromatic polymer with a wide range of potential future uses. However, the conversion of lignin into valuable products comes at a cost, and medium- to high-value applications are thus appropriate. Two examples of these are polymers (e.g., as fibers, plasticizers, or additives) and flow batteries (e.g., as redox species). Both of these areas would benefit from lignin-derived molecules with potentially low molecular weight and high (electro)chemical functionality. A promising route to obtain these molecules is oxidative lignin depolymerization, as it enables the formation of targeted compounds with multiple functionalities. An application with high potential in the production of plastics is the synthesis of new sustainable polymers. Employing organic molecules, such as quinones and heterocycles, would constitute an important step toward the sustainability of aqueous flow batteries, and lignin and its derivatives are emerging as redox species, mainly due to their low cost and renewability.

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PMID38544571
PMCPMC10966304

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