INSTM and Chemistry for Technologies Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Brescia, via Branze, 38, 25123 Brescia, Italy.
INSTM and Chemistry for Technologies Laboratory, Department of Information Engineering, University of Brescia, via Branze 38, 25123 Brescia, Italy.
Molecules. 2021 Mar 5;26(5):1407. doi: 10.3390/molecules26051407.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been proposed to give a possible future to humankind. Due to the multidimensional characteristic of sustainability, SDGs need research activities with a multidisciplinary approach. This work aims to provide a critical review of the results concerning sustainable materials obtained by Italian researchers affiliated to the National Interuniversity Consortium of Materials Science and Technology (INSTM) and their contribution to reaching specific indicators of the 17 SDGs. Data were exposed by using the Web of Science (WoS) database. In the investigated period (from 2016 to 2020), 333 works about sustainable materials are found and grouped in one of the following categories: chemicals (33%), composites (11%), novel materials for pollutants sequestration (8%), bio-based and food-based materials (10%), materials for green building (8%), and materials for energy (29%). This review contributes to increasing the awareness of several of the issues concerning sustainable materials but also to encouraging the researchers to focus on SDGs' interconnections. Indeed, the mapping of the achievements can be relevant to the decision-makers to identify the opportunities that materials can offer to achieve the final goals. In this frame, a "Sustainable Materials Partnership for SDGs" is envisaged for more suitable resource management in the future.
可持续发展目标 (SDGs) 的提出是为了给人类一个可能的未来。由于可持续性的多维特征，SDGs 需要采用多学科方法的研究活动。本工作旨在对隶属于意大利国家材料科学与技术联合会 (INSTM) 的研究人员在可持续材料方面的研究成果进行批判性回顾，并评估其对实现 17 项 SDGs 具体指标的贡献。数据是通过使用 Web of Science (WoS) 数据库获得的。在所研究的时期（2016 年至 2020 年），发现了 333 篇关于可持续材料的论文，并将其分为以下几类：化学品（33%）、复合材料（11%）、用于污染物隔离的新型材料（8%）、生物基和食品基材料（10%）、绿色建筑材料（8%）和能源材料（29%）。本综述有助于提高人们对可持续材料相关问题的认识，同时鼓励研究人员关注 SDGs 的相互联系。事实上，对成果的映射对于决策者来说可以识别材料可以提供的机会，以实现最终目标。在这方面，预计将建立一个“可持续材料与 SDGs 伙伴关系”，以实现未来更合适的资源管理。
