Kumar Anuj, Thakur Vijay Kumar, Nezhad Hamed Yazdani, Lee Kwan-Soo
School of Materials Science and Technology, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, 221005, India.
Biorefining and Advanced Materials Research Centre, Scotland's Rural College, Edinburgh, EH9 3JG, UK.
Sci Rep. 2024 Apr 24;14(1):9430. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-59439-z.
Synthetic polymers have shown a great impact on every aspect of our life and attained an exponential rise in their production and utilization in the past decades due to their durability, flexibility, moldability, and inexpensive nature. However, the use of natural polymers or development of safe and environment-friendly synthetic bio-based polymers is continuously undergoing for a sustainable future owing to the exhaustion of petroleum-based resources or fossil-based materials, disposal and economical concerns, including government guidelines. In this regard, the development of new sustainable polymers or materials will step up and build a genuinely circular economy by decreasing manufacture or utilization of fossil-based materials as limited reserves.
合成聚合物对我们生活的方方面面都产生了巨大影响，并且由于其耐久性、柔韧性、可模塑性和成本低廉的特性，在过去几十年中其产量和利用率呈指数级增长。然而，由于石油基资源或化石基材料的枯竭、处置和经济方面的担忧（包括政府指导方针），为了实现可持续发展的未来，天然聚合物的使用或安全且环境友好的合成生物基聚合物的开发一直在持续进行。在这方面，新的可持续聚合物或材料的开发将加速，并通过减少作为有限储备的化石基材料的制造或使用来构建真正的循环经济。
