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Chemistry
2018
Chemistry 2018
Journal of Organic & Inorganic Chemistry
ISSN 2472-1123
F e b r u a r y 1 9 - 2 0 , 2 0 1 8
P a r i s , F r a n c e
Page 77
T
he forest products industry has enormous natural
resources that can be used in the production of a wide
range of products that have found use in every part of
modern society and become indispensable for a long time.
In the past 20 years, many industries have benefited from
the advantages that nanoscience and nanotechnology bring
together to life. However, the forest products industry has
recently embraced the studies in this area and has begun
to develop its research in this regard. The facts that wood
and wood-based products are sustainable, renewable and
recyclable and have a great potential to reduce the demand
of societies for petroleum-based resources, have led the
nanotechnology studies to concentrate on this area over time.
The studies on nanotechnology in the forest products field
Bio-based
nanocomposites
and its potential
application areas
Zeki Candan
1
and Atanur
Satir
2
1
Istanbul University, Turkey
2
Directorate of Central Anatolia Forestry Re-
search Institute, Turkey
is mostly on the production of nanomaterials (nanocellulose
and nanolignin) from wood-based lignocellulosic materials
and the development of new green materials based on these
nanomaterials. Nanotechnology, however, has a great potential
in lignocellulosic material and can be used for production and
deposition of energy; for measurement of moisture levels,
temperature, pressure and loads and for detection of biological
and chemical attacks by installing nanosensors to the material.
On the other hand, nanomaterials obtained from wood can be
utilized to produce high value-added products in pharmaceutical
applications as a new approach for drug delivery systems, in
environmental remediation activities as new adsorbent media,
in biomedical area as new wound healing, tissue recovering
material, in cosmetic as emulsifier, rheology modifier and in
electronics as flexible and transparent displays, electronic
circuits, electrodes and supercapacitors.
zekic@istanbul.edu.trJ Org Inorg Chem 2018, Volume: 4
DOI: 10.21767/2472-1123-C1-003