Functionalized Wood: A Green Nanoengineering Platform for Sustainable Technologies (IMAGE)
Caption
- The intrinsic hierarchical, anisotropic, and porous architecture of wood provides a structurally programmable scaffold that supports subsequent nanoengineering strategies, enabling multiscale property modulation for diverse sustainable applications.
- Wood-specific hierarchical nanoengineering strategies—including carbonization, delignification, laser-induced graphene formation, and nanomaterial integration—are systematically categorized to enable tunable structures and properties across multiple length scales.
- Functionalized wood with nanostructures enables sustainable solutions in energy storage (e.g., Zn–air batteries, supercapacitors), water treatment (e.g., adsorption, filtration), and renewable power generation (e.g., solar-thermal, thermoelectric and hydrovoltaic systems).
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Tuo Zhang, Mingwei Gu, Yizhu Liu, Guangyao Chen, Haiyang Zhang, Liguo Chen, Xingwen Zhou, Lining Sun, Zhen Wen*, Yunlei Zhou*, Haibo Huang*.
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