Guest Editors
Yun Lu, Professor, Research Institute of Wood Industry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, China.
Yun Lu received her Ph.D. in Wood Science and Technology from Northeast Forestry University in 2014. She was a postdoctor with the mentor of Prof. Thomas Rosenau at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU). She is now working as a professor at the Research Institute of Wood Industry, Chinese Academy of Forestry. Her research concentrates on the fundamental research of "Wood structure elucidation, reorganization and functionalization from molecular perspectives".
Kunkun Tu, Institute for Building Materials, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Kunkun Tu is a Postdoc in Wood Materials Science group of ETH Zürich. She received her doctoral degree in the same group in 2021. Prior to that, she received her master’s degree from Chinese Academy of Forestry and bachelor’s degree from Nanjing Forestry University. She has published 16 papers so far with total citations over 477 (H-index 11). She has been granted two patents. Her research interests have been focused on the functionalization of wood materials for advanced applications such as gas adsorption and separation, energy harvesting and conversion, and catalysis. She is also interested in functional wood materials characterization with different technics including Raman spectroscopy, Atomic force microscopy, and so on.
Jingpeng Li, Assistant Professor, China National Bamboo Research Center, China.
Jingpeng Li is an assistant professor at the Engineering Technology Research Center for Building and Decorating Materials of Bamboo State Forestry Administration, China National Bamboo Research Center. His current work focuses on the surface functionalization of bamboo and advanced applications of biomass materials. He also works as the guest editor or reviewer for more than 20 SCI journals.
Summary
The development of novel functional materials
based on renewable resources represents one of the main current challenges in
materials science. It is crucial for the transformation towards a sustainable
society and to reduce the pressure of mineral resource shortage and
anthropogenic environmental deteriorations. Wood and bamboo, as one of the most
abundant renewable resources, have raised increasing attention in materials
science. Owing to their outstanding mechanical properties, environmental
characteristics, and aesthetic appearance, wood and bamboo were widely used as
construction or furniture, but not as materials used in high-tech applications
in the past.
Nevertheless, in recent years, the
breakthroughs around the world on the functionalization of wood and
bamboo-based materials epitomize the tremendous yet largely unexplored
potential of such materials- a paradigm shift from their conventional usage.
The porous hierarchical structure and pronounced anisotropy of wood and bamboo
give them a variety of remarkable properties, yielding opportunities for the
design of functional materials.
This Special Issue titled “Functionalization
of Wood and Bamboo-based Materials” covers various potential topics include but
are not limited to the following:
• Functionalization
approaches of wood/bamboo by inorganic materials, polymers and organic
molecules
• Advanced
characterization methods for analyzing functionalized materials such as
spectroscopy (Raman and infrared), atomic force microscopy imaging, X-ray diffraction,
electron microscopy and so on.
• Advanced
applications based on wood and bamboo-based materials including energy storage
and conversion, water treatment, gas storage and separation, catalytic reactor,
sensor, tissue engineering, electromagnetic shielding, and light and thermal
management.
This Special Issue aims to increase the
knowledge of wood/bamboo functionalization by collecting the latest research
information. We are delighted to invite you to submit your work to contribute
to this Special Issue in the form of research articles or reviews.
Keywords
Wood, Bamboo, Functional materials, Advanced applications, Characterization technologies
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