Journal of Renewable Materials
ISSN: 2164-6325 (Print)
ISSN: 2164-6341 (Online)
Editor-in-Chief
Antonio Pizzi is full Professor of industrial chemistry at the ENSTIB, University of Lorraine. Prof. Pizzi, who holds a Dr. Chem. (Polymers, Rome, Italy), a Ph.D. (Organic Chemistry, South Africa) and a D.Sc. (Wood Chemistry, South Africa), is the author of more than 900 research and technical articles, patents, contract reports and international conference papers as well as 11 books on adhesion and adhesives published in New York. He is the recipient of numerous prestigious international prizes for new industrial developments in his fields of specialization such as, among others the Descartes Prize of the European Commission and the Schweighofer Prize for Wood Research Innovation. His best-known area of specialization is on wood and fiber glueing and wood adhesives chemistry, formulation and application, in particular in bioadhesives and their application to composite products based on natural materials.
Editor
Ramaswamy Nagarajan is a Professor of Plastics Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell and has a science and engineering background with bachelor degrees in chemistry and rubber technology from India and a doctoral degree in polymer science from the University of Massachusetts. His research interest is in the development of “greener”/sustainable routes to advanced functional materials (polymers, additives and surfactants). Working at the interface of science and engineering his research group has been involved in translating fundamental research into engineering applications for advancing technology in new and emerging areas. He has published more than 55 papers in peer-reviewed journals and holds 17 U.S. patents.
Associate Editors
Wan-Ting (Grace) Chen is an assistant Professor of Plastics Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. Prior to joining the faculty at Lowell, Grace was a postdoc research associate in the School of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University. Grace received her B.Sc in Chemical Engineering from the National Taiwan University, M.S. and Ph.D. in Biological and Agricultural Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Grace’s Ph.D. research work focused on developing a synergistically integrated waste-to-fuel system that simultaneously produces biofuel and treats wet biowaste via algae growth and hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL). In particular, Grace’s Ph.D. work contributes to the area of upgrading complex HTL biocrude oil converted from biowaste into transportation fuels by distillation, esterification, and catalytic treatments. Grace’s ongoing work focuses on valorization of plastic waste into useful products, including pristine polymers, fuels, specialty chemicals, and monomers. Grace has an h-index of 13 and has published 17 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 1 book chapter, and 34 conference presentations.
Zhen Fang, Elected Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (2021), is leader and founder of biomass group of the College of Engineering at Nanjing Agricultural University. He is the inventor of “fast hydrolysis” process. Prof. Fang is specializing in thermal/biochemical conversion of biomass, nanocatalysts synthesis and their applications, pretreatment of biomass for biorefineries and supercritical fluid processes. He obtained his PhDs from China Agricultural University (Agricultural Engineering, Beijing) and McGill University (Materials Engineering, Montreal) as well as received further postdoc training in Chemical Engineering in Spain (Marie Curie Fellowship, Universidad de Zaragoza) and visiting exchanges in bioenergy in Japan (AIST fellowship). He is listed in the “Most Cited Chinese Researchers” in energy for 2014-2019 (Elsevier-Scopus). He has more than 20-year international research experiences at top universities and institutes around the world, including 1 year in Spain (University of Zaragoza), 3 years in Japan (Biomass Technology Research Center, AIST; Tohoku University), and more than 8 years in Canada (McGill) in renewable energy and green technologies. He has worked for 7 years as a senior engineer in energy, bioresource utilization and engine design in industry before moving to academia. He won the Governor’s Friendship (Caiyun) Award in 2012 in Yunnan for the significant contributions to the Jatropha biodiesel industry and bioenergy, 2013 S&T Progress Award (the first place) of Xishuangbanna Prefecture for Breeding of New Varieties of Jatropha, and 2017 CAS Excellent Supervisor Award for training students (CAS: Chinese Academy of Sciences).
Baolin Guo got his Ph.D degree in 2011 at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden. From 2011, he joined the Frontier Institute of Science and Technology (FIST), Xi’an Jiaotong University. Dr. Baolin Guo is now a professor and group leader of biomedical polymers, and he has published more than 80 papers (cited >6000 times) with him as the first author and corresponding author, such as Progress in Polymer Science, Nature Communications, ACS Nano, Advanced Functional Materials, Biomaterials, Chemistry of Materials, Small, and Macromolecules. He owns 19 ESI highly cited papers, and 9 ESI hot papers in the Web of Science. His research interests are polymeric biomaterials, tissue engineering, and drug delivery system, particularly in the areas of conductive biomaterials for regenerative medicine, wound healing and hemostat. He is the recipient of Distinguished Young Scholars Award of Shaanxi Province. He serves as referee for more than 30 international journals.
Haitao Li, Joint Training Ph.D. by Tongji University and the University of Western Australia, is the Vice Dean of College of Civil Engineering in Nanjing Forestry University, Director of Joint International Research Laboratory of Bio-composite Building Materials and Structures (JIRLBBMS) at Nanjing Forestry University. He has published more than 130 papers and authorized more than 80 patents. He has won 8 scientific awards ranking top 1 and worked as a project leader for ISO standards, CECS. He has written three books and worked as INBAR Construction Task Force Key Expert, ISO TC165 timber structure committee, the International Scientific Committee on the Analysis and Restoration of Structures of Architectural Heritage (ISCARSAH) etcetera. He is also one of the co-founding members of the International Research Centre for Bio-composite Building Materials and Structures, established in 2018 and located at Nanjing Forestry University. He also played a leading role in launching the ACEM Conference (Advances in Civil Engineering Materials) and World Symposium on Bio-composite Materials and Structures (SBMS). He also works as the editor or reviewer for more than 20 SCI journals.
George Z. Papageorgiou is an Associate Professor of Industrial Chemistry, University of Ioannina. He received his Diploma in Chemical Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh). He also holds an MSc (1998) and a Ph.D. (2002) in Polymer Science (AUTh). His current research focuses on polymers from renewable resources and biodegradable polymers. Polymer matrix nanocomposites, pharmaceutical technology, and thermal analysis are also among his research interests. He is the author and co-author of about 130 journal papers and book chapters. A large number of his publications deal with the synthesis, phase transitions, and crystallization of polyesters of 2, 5-furandicarboxylic acid and other polymers from monomers derived from biomass.
Krzysztof Pielichowski is a full Professor and chair of the Department of Chemistry and Technology of Polymers, Cracow University of Technology. He graduated from the Cracow University of Technology, and received his Ph.D. from AGH University of Science and Technology and D.Sc. from Warsaw University of Technology. His research interests are focused on polymer (nano) technology and chemistry, particularly in the areas of (bio) polymer nanocomposites with nanocrystalline cellulose and hybrid organic-inorganic materials. Special attention is dedicated to the assessment of (nano) composite materials impact on the environment at all stages: preparation, characterization and recycling. He is co-author (or editor) of eight books and over 120 papers with impact factor. He is member Committee of Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Commission of Technical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as recipient of Kosciuszko Foundation and Fulbright Foundation fellowships in the USA. He has served as a reviewer of a number of projects and research papers over the last decade and was supervisor of eleven Ph.D. thesis (completed) and four currently running.
Yiqiang Wu, Elected Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2021, is an expert in field of forestry engineering. Prof. Wu is specializing in the field of efficient utilization of wood, bamboo and straw resources, as well as green and low-carbon manufacturing of wood-based panels. He is the inventor of the theory of instantaneous shrinkage and maximum instantaneous shrinkage of wood cells and invented the superposition coupling theory of flame retardant and smoke suppression functions of wood materials. Recently, he is expanding his research to develop nano functional materials from sustainable bio-resources for the potential applications in fields of energy storage, catalysis and other functional materials. He graduated from Central South Forestry College in 1991, majoring in wood machining. He obtained his PhDs from National Ehime University of Japan (Wood science and technology). He has worked in the Central South University of Forestry and Technology since 1991, and was promoted to full professor in 2007. He won 2010 and 2018 National Scientific and Technological Progress Award (the second prize), 2014 National Teaching Achievement Award (the second prize), and 2017 National Innovation and Competition Award.
Xu-Ming XIE graduated with B. Eng from Shinshu University, Japan in 1985. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Dept. of Organic and Polymeric Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan in 1987 and 1990, respectively. From 1990 to 1992, he worked as a research scientist at Kawasaki Plastics Laboratory, Showa Denko, Ltd. (Japan). He has worked at Tsinghua University since 1992, and has been a full Professor since 1999. He is interested in areas such as 1) Structure control and properties of multiphase polymer systems 2) Recycling and renewable of waste plastics 3) Polymer grafting and modification 4) Modification and assembly of nanomaterials and their nanocomposites 5) Super tough and highly stretchable hydrogels 6) Confined crystallization and phase separation of polymer systems. He was awarded JSPS Visiting Professor Fellowship in 1999 and Georgy. T. Piercy Distinguished Visiting Professor award from Dept. of Chemical Engineering & Materials, University of Minnesota (USA) in 2002. He was also invited as a visiting Professor in Chuo University, Japan in 2005. In 2007 and 2018 he obtained the “Feng Xinde Polymer Prize” respectively from ELSEVIER. He has published more than 220 papers in peer-reviewed journals. He also holds 20 Chinese, European and/or US patents which have been approved or disclosed.
Jianzhuang Xiao is a full professor and head of the Department of Building Engineering, College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai. He graduated from Tongji University where he received his Ph.D. He is the former Alexander von Humboldt Foundation research fellow in Germany in 2004. His research interests are focused on the material properties and structural behaviors of recycled aggregate concrete. He was awarded the Distinguished Young Scholars of China by the National Natural Science Foundation of PR China in 2013, the UKIERI Award of UKIERI Concrete Congress in India in 2015, and 2nd class National Award for Science and Technology by the State Council of PR China in 2018. He published more than 180 papers in the Science Citation Index (SCI) international journals. He edited the first Technical Code for Recycled Aggregate Concrete in PR China, and currently he is the chairman of the RILEM Technical Committee for Recycled Concrete Structural Behavior and Innovation, the director of the Recycled Concrete Committee in PR China.
Prior to commencing at Cranfield University, Vijay Kumar Thakur worked as a Staff Scientist in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University, USA. He was also a Research Scientist in Temasek Laboratories at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at LHU, Taiwan. Dr Thakur did his post-doctoral study in Materials Science & Engineering at Iowa State University and received a Ph.D. in Polymer Chemistry (2009) from the National Institute of Technology. He received his BSc (Chemistry, Physics & Mathematics), BEd and MSc degree in Organic Chemistry from Himachal Pradesh University, India. Dr. Thakur has published more than 125 SCI journal research articles (Google Scholar h-index 61; citations >10,000) in the field of chemical sciences / materials science and holds one United States patent. Eleven of his research papers have been highlighted as Highly Cited Papers in the Web of Science and three papers have been classed as Hot Papers. He has also published 44 books and 35 book chapters on polymer science / materials science / nanotechnology with numerous publishers.
Haipeng YU is a full Professor and head of Key Laboratory of Wood Science and Engineering of State Forestry Administration, Northeast Forestry University (China). He graduated and received his Ph.D. from Northeast Forestry University. He started as an assistant Professor at Northeast Forestry University in 2005, and was promoted to associate professor and professor in 2007 and 2011. His research interests are focused on wood-based renewable materials and composites, nanocellulose and its nanocomposites. Special attention is dedicated to biomass refinery via green solvents & technologies. He has been involved in the ranks of Young Top-Notch Talents of China, the Young Chang Jiang Scholars Program by Chinese Ministry of Education, and the Excellent Young Scientists Sponsorship Program by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). He is also the first-prize winner of Young Teacher Award from Fok Ying Tong Education Foundation. He is member of Nanocellulose Committee of China Technical Association of Paper Industry, committee member of Chinese Society of Cellulose and Renewable Materials, as well as deputy secretary-general of Wood Science Branch of Chinese Forestry Society. He is now a pannelist of Forestry Expert Administrative Group of National Key Research & Development Program, and a judging panel member of Project Review Committee of NSFC. He has served as a reviewer of a number of projects and research papers over the last decade and was supervisor of twenty-five MS and Ph.D. thesis.
Chaoqun Zhang is a full Professor of College of Materials and Energy, South China Agricultural University (China). Prof. Zhang received his Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering in 2014 from Iowa State University, USA. Following his Ph.D., he served as a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Sustainable Polymers at University of Minnesota from 2014 to 2015 and at Texas A&M University from 2015 to 2016 before he returned to China. His research interests are focused on vegetable oil based waterborne polyurethanes, plant polyphenol based epoxy resins and carbohydrate-based functional hydrogels. He has published more than 50 research papers in peer-reviewed journals and has filed more than 10 patents. He has edited a book under the title of “Bio-based Plant Oil Polymers and Composites” 2016, Elsevier. He is the recipient of Distinguished Young Scholars Award of Guangdong Province (2018) and Pearl River Talent Plan (2018).
Jin Zhu is a Professor of Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Prof. Zhu got his Ph.D. from Marquette University in 2001 and did postdoctoral research at Cornell University from 2001 to 2003. He worked at several US companies before he returned China in 2009. His research interests are on bio-based polymers, nanocomposites and flame retardancy. Currently, he spends more efforts on bio-based polyesters, bio-based thermosetting polymers, biocomposites and bio-based polymer additives. He has published more than 200 research papers in peer-reviewed journals and has more than 90 patents granted. Several technologies have been transferred to industry and successfully commercialized.