Beilstein J. Nanotechnol.2023,14, 467–477, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.37
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Keywords: circulareconomy; colorimetry; sustainability; Introduction
The growing interest in industrial products that do not harm the environment triggered the development of diverse strategies to optimize recycling and green syntheses of materials. It is possible to combine economic and environmental
interests to produce synthetic inorganic pigments [1] using metallic aluminium scrap as precursor to obtain a white matrix that can then be colored by chromophore ions as an approach within the circulareconomy of aluminium [1]. Aluminium production has one of the most significant energy consumption
, with rates ranging from 25% to 85% worldwide [3].
In the last decade, interest in the circulareconomy issues has increased almost a hundredfold [5], accompanied by research and widespread awareness. However, circulareconomy is still a relatively new concept. It has been embraced as a concept based on
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Figure 1:
XRD diffractograms of (a) alumina showing the θ-Al2O3 phase, (b) sample 1 showing a mixture of alum...
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol.2019,10, 589–605, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.60
these materials show different properties with regard to water repellency, oil absorption, tensile strength, and optical brightness. Composing renewable materials such as cellulose and abietic acid for customized product development is in the line of interests of circular-economy initiatives implemented
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Figure 1:
Fiber length distribution of (a) BKP and BKPR and (b) UBKP and UBKPR. Optical microscopy images (10...