Biorefinery Approach for Aerogels

Tatiana Budtova; Daniel Antonio Aguilera; Sergejs Beluns; Linn Berglund; Coraline Chartier; Eduardo Espinosa; Sergejs Gaidukovs; Agnieszka Klimek-Kopyra; Angelika Kmita; Dorota Lachowicz; Falk Liebner; Oskars Platnieks; Alejandro Rodríguez; Lizeth Katherine Tinoco Navarro; Fangxin Zou; Sytze J Buwalda

doi:10.3390/polym12122779

Biorefinery Approach for Aerogels

Polymers (Basel). 2020 Nov 24;12(12):2779. doi: 10.3390/polym12122779.

Authors

Tatiana Budtova¹, Daniel Antonio Aguilera¹, Sergejs Beluns², Linn Berglund³, Coraline Chartier¹, Eduardo Espinosa⁴, Sergejs Gaidukovs², Agnieszka Klimek-Kopyra⁵, Angelika Kmita⁶, Dorota Lachowicz⁶, Falk Liebner⁷, Oskars Platnieks², Alejandro Rodríguez⁴, Lizeth Katherine Tinoco Navarro⁸, Fangxin Zou¹, Sytze J Buwalda¹

Affiliations

¹ MINES ParisTech, PSL Research University, Center for Materials Forming (CEMEF), UMR CNRS 7635, CS 10207, 06904 Sophia Antipolis, France.
² Faculty of Materials Science and Applied Chemistry, Institute of Polymer Materials, Riga Technical University, P.Valdena 3/7, LV, 1048 Riga, Latvia.
³ Division of Materials Science, Department of Engineering Sciences and Mathematics, Luleå University of Technology, SE-971 87 Luleå, Sweden.
⁴ Chemical Engineering Department, Bioagres Group, Faculty of Science, Universidad de Córdoba, Campus of Rabanales, 14014 Córdoba, Spain.
⁵ Faculty of Agriculture and Economics, Department of Agroecology and Plant Production, University of Agriculture, Aleja Mickieiwcza 21, 31-120 Kraków, Poland.
⁶ Academic Centre for Materials and Nanotechnology, AGH University of Science and Technology, al. A. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, Poland.
⁷ Department of Chemistry, Institute for Chemistry of Renewable Resources, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Konrad Lorenz Straße 24, A-3430 Tulln an der Donau, Austria.
⁸ CEITEC-VUT Central European Institute of Technology-Brno university of Technology, Purkyňova 123, 612 00 Brno-Královo Pole, Czech Republic.

Abstract

According to the International Energy Agency, biorefinery is "the sustainable processing of biomass into a spectrum of marketable bio-based products (chemicals, materials) and bioenergy (fuels, power, heat)". In this review, we survey how the biorefinery approach can be applied to highly porous and nanostructured materials, namely aerogels. Historically, aerogels were first developed using inorganic matter. Subsequently, synthetic polymers were also employed. At the beginning of the 21st century, new aerogels were created based on biomass. Which sources of biomass can be used to make aerogels and how? This review answers these questions, paying special attention to bio-aerogels' environmental and biomedical applications. The article is a result of fruitful exchanges in the frame of the European project COST Action "CA 18125 AERoGELS: Advanced Engineering and Research of aeroGels for Environment and Life Sciences".

Keywords: aerogel; alginate; biomass; carrageenan; cellulose; chitosan; lignocellulose; nanocellulose; pectin; starch.

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