Wood nanotechnology: a more promising solution toward energy issues: a mini-review
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REVIEW PAPER
Wood nanotechnology: a more promising solution toward energy issues: a mini-review Zhaodong Zhu
. Guifa Xiao . Junqing Chen . Shiyu Fu
Received: 22 April 2020 / Accepted: 13 August 2020 Ó Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Abstract With the shortage of global fossil energy resource and the emergence of ecological crisis, concerns toward energy issues have risen to an unprecedented level. People have begun to seek potential and sustainable solutions to energy problems, developing energy materials with green blocks, so as to provide technical support for the reliability and advancement of future living environment. As an alternative method for constructing sustainable materials by assembling scattered nanocellulose building blocks using bottom-up technology, the integrated nano-architectonic from wood has attracted more and more attention in energy areas. Based on the current hotspots of high performance batteries, solar steam generation and building energy efficiency, this review describes the significance of wood nanotechnology for sustainable energy development. Keywords Energy materials Wood Nanotechnology Sustainability
Z. Zhu G. Xiao J. Chen S. Fu (&) State Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Engineering, South China University of Technology, Wushan Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou 510640, People’s Republic of China e-mail: [email protected]
Introduction Green sustainable energy technologies are urgently needed (Armand and Tarascon 2008; Chu et al. 2017; Mokhena and John 2020). Solar power, nuclear power, tidal power, geothermal power, and wind power are clean and renewable energy resources but they suffer from environmental damage and overuse to varying degrees (Yang et al. 2011a, b). There is a wide range of needs for how to develop and protect energy forms in a friendly and reasonable manner while following the principles of sustainability (Mochane et al. 2018). Wood is a biomass resource with considerable mass distribution. Applications of wood at the basic (life) level have been very extensive. Furthermore, wood can also be ingeniously functionalized and developed into a variety of advanced functional materials to benefit emerging and key technological fields. In recent years, the understanding toward wood has formed a deep system from nanostructure (wood porefiber nanostructure) to performance (performance characteristics of wood) to application (functional materials). The level of recognizing about the interaction between structural chemistry and function has reached a new height (Zhang et al. 2019), which are leading to a myriad of new and exciting ideas turning into possible, thus inspiring this review. The purpose of this review is to emphasize the application value of sustainable wood nano-devices in energy fields, hoping to arouse greater attention from the wider
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community to green nanotechnology in the context of the energy era. Therefore, we explain the uniqueness and promising prospects of wood-based energy nanode
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