Functional and Green End-of-life Nanocomposites: Design, Processing and Characterisation

目前有一个及时的机会，可以创造出大幅改进的绿色(可再生)和环境友好的可生物降解材料，以实现大容量、低负载和低成本。通过制备新型细菌纤维素增强的生物衍生聚合物纳米复合材料，将有可能开发出力学性能和环境性能均有显著提高、寿命周期成本较低的新型层次化复合材料。最终的产品将完全由可再生资源制成，并且将完全可生物降解。我们期待材料有很大的改进，预计将有三个主要应用：用于汽车和建筑行业的纤维增强绿色纳米复合材料和用于包装和建筑行业的新型绝缘材料的发泡纳米复合材料。

There is currently a timely opportunity to create dramatically improved green (renewable) and environmentally-friendly biodegradable materials for high volume, low load, and low cost. By manufacturing new bacterial cellulose reinforced bio-derived polymer nanocomposites, a new class of hierarchical composites with both much improved mechanical and environmental performance, as well as reduced through-life costs will be possible. The resulting product will be made completely from renewable resources, and will be totally biodegradable. We are expecting greatly improved materials for which three major applications are envisioned: fibre reinforced green nanocomposites for the automotive and construction industry and foamed nanocomposites as novel insulating materials for the packaging and construction industries.