Renewable materials from nature are emerging as attractive solutions to a range of technological challenges. In particular, wood-derived biomaterials are not only biocompatible and earth-abundant but also have nature-provided intrinsic structures for potentially transformative performance. There are still grand challenges in fundamental research and understanding to accelerate wood-derived biomaterials toward commercial reality, which include new materials and structures with tailored properties, novel devices with  both excellent functionality and mechanical flexibility, efficient and scalable techniques for nanomanufacturing, and system-level integrations. This talk will include the fundamental structures and chemistries of wood and wood-derived materials, which are essential for a wide range of existing and new enabling technologies. The scope of this talk will cover multiscale materials and assemblies of wood-derived biomaterials, in regard to their major emerging applications. Structure-properties-application relationships will be discussed in detail. Understanding the fundamental properties of biopolymer is crucial for designing and manufacturing products for emerging applications. Today, a more holistic understanding of the interplay between the structure, chemistry, and performance of wood and wood-derived materials is advancing historical applications of these materials. This new level of understanding also enables a myriad of new and exciting applications, which motivate the works covered in this talk.

Multifunctional materials based on wood derived biopolymer

253rd National Meeting (2017)

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