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Green, Recycled and Intelligent Technologies in Printing and Packaging

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Xing Zhou, Dr., Associate Professor, Faculty of Printing, Packaging Engineering and Digital Media Technology, Xi’an University of Technology, China.
Dr. X. Zhou obtained his Ph.D. degree from Xi’an University of Technology (XUT) in 2017 following which he worked as an associate professor in Department of Faculty of Printing, Packaging Engineering and Digital Media Technology in XUT. He specializes in waste polymers management and recycling, water-based inks and waterborne resins in printing and packaging engineering, protein (lysozyme) research in packaging (food industry) and printing process and carbon-based nanomaterials. He has published more than 45 peer-reviewed articles, 20 patents. He also set 3 standards for the cooperation company.

Yaohong Zhang, Professor, School of Physics, Northwest University, China.
Prof. Zhang obtained his PhD from the University of Electro-Communications (UEC) in Japan in 2017. Subsequently, he joined Prof. Shen’s group at UEC as a project fellow until Sep. 2020. Currently, he is a professor of Northwest University. His research is focused on optoelectronic nanomaterials and their application in photovoltaic and photocatalysis as well as their corresponding carrier dynamics study. Currently, He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers; his publications have been cited over 1,600 times with his H-index of 23.

Li Li, Professor, College of Food Sciences and Technology, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China.
Dr. L. Li obtained his Ph.D. degree from Shanghai University in 2008 and he is working in Shanghai Ocean University since June 2008. He has engaged in postdoctoral research at Fudan University from 2009.9 to 2012.3. He went on an academic visit in the Department of Biosystem Engineering at Washington State University for one year in 2014. He specializes in antibacterial and antioxidant mechanisms of active packaging in food preservation, fundamental research and application of functional green packaging & intelligent packaging, transportation packaging. He has published more than 40 papers (including more than 20 SCI papers and 2 ESI papers) in core academic journals at home and abroad such as Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Food Chemistry and Food Science.

Wei Zhang, Associate Professor, School of Ecology and Environment, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China.
Dr. Wei Zhang obtained his Ph.D. degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2016. He is currently served as Executive deputy director of Zhengzhou Key Laboratory of Water Resource and Environment, Deputy Secretary-General of the 4th Water Resources Committee of China Society Natural Resources, and China Urban Water Association (CUWA) Young Water Professionals. He specializes in the design of environmentally functional materials, removal of pollutants from polluted water or soil, and migration law of novel pollutants in natural water. He has published more than 30 journal articles.

Juntao (Reynard) Tang, Associate Professor, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Dr. Juntao (Reynard) Tang works at the College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering in Central South University as an associate professor. He received his PhD degree in Chemical at University of Waterloo Canada in 2016 and continued the one-year post-doctoral research. His current research interests involve designing and developing porous polymeric materials for advanced applications. He has published more than 40 journal articles and his H-index is 21.

Summary

The increasing daily demand, environmental concerns and high development of technologies have made it necessary and urgent to develop convenient, environment-friendly and multifunctional materials and even devices in printing and packaging areas. Green, recycled and intelligent technologies have attracted an increasing attention from researchers to manufacturers due to the significantly economic and social benefits. Thus, significant researches have been carried out to reduce pollution and enhance intelligent level, such as water-based productions, flexible electronic technologies and so on. The facile, high efficiency and smart technologies may promote the green development of printing and packaging. This Special Issue "Green, Recycled and Intelligent Technologies in Printing and Packaging" mainly focuses on the current research progress of the green, recycled and intelligent technologies in printing and packaging, including materials, devices and even simulation in these areas. The scope of interests includes but is not limited to the following topics:

(1) Green preparation of environment-friendly materials in printing and packaging;

(2) Recycling of waste packaging materials, such as plastic, metal, paper, etc.;

(3) The functional materials, including electric, optical, thermal resistance, magnetic, hydrophobic materials, etc.;

(4) The green fabrication technologies for preparation of smart devices;

(5) Reusing of natural materials, such as lignin, cellulose, protein, etc.;

(6) The calculation and simulation technologies during the materials and devices preparation.


Keywords

Environment-friendly materials; Green fabrication; Recycling; Multifunctions; Simulation; Printing and Packaging

Published Papers


  • Open Access

    ARTICLE

    An ADRC Parameters Self-Tuning Control Strategy of Tension System Based on RBF Neural Network

    Shanhui Liu, Haodi Ding, Ziyu Wang, Li’e Ma, Zheng Li
    Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.11, No.4, pp. 1991-2014, 2023, DOI:10.32604/jrm.2022.023659
    (This article belongs to the Special Issue: Green, Recycled and Intelligent Technologies in Printing and Packaging)
    Abstract High precision control of substrate tension is the premise and guarantee for producing high-quality products in roll-to-roll precision coating machine. However, the complex relationships in tension system make the problems of decoupling control difficult to be solved, which has limited the improvement of tension control accuracy for the coating machine. Therefore, an ADRC parameters self-tuning decoupling strategy based on RBF neural network is proposed to improve the control accuracy of tension system in this paper. Firstly, a global coupling nonlinear model of the tension system is established according to the composition of the coating machine, More >

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    An ADRC Parameters Self-Tuning Control Strategy of Tension System Based on RBF Neural Network

  • Open Access

    ARTICLE

    Numerical Simulation and Experimental Study of the Stress Formation Mechanism of FDM with Different Printing Paths

    Heping Hou, Yang Yue, Jian Liu, Darun Xi, Shanhui Liu
    Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.11, No.1, pp. 273-289, 2023, DOI:10.32604/jrm.2023.021167
    (This article belongs to the Special Issue: Green, Recycled and Intelligent Technologies in Printing and Packaging)
    Abstract Environmental contamination has been caused by petroleum-based polymeric materials in the melt deposition process. Nowadays biodegradable materials have been widely used in the fused deposition modeling (FDM) industry, such as polylactic acid (PLA). However, internal complex thermal stress and deformations in part caused by an uneven distribution of PLA filament deposition temperatures during FDM, which will seriously affect the geometric accuracy of the printed part. In order to reduce material waste and environmental pollution during the printing process, the accuracy of PLA part can be improved. Herein, numerical simulation was carried out to investigate the… More >

  • Open Access

    ARTICLE

    Research on Printing Quality Evaluation of Decorative Paper Based on AHPEWM Model

    Huailin Li, Chan Zhang, Shisheng Zhou, Bin Du, Xue Li
    Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.10, No.12, pp. 3425-3438, 2022, DOI:10.32604/jrm.2022.021157
    (This article belongs to the Special Issue: Green, Recycled and Intelligent Technologies in Printing and Packaging)
    Abstract Printing quality evaluation is an important means to check whether prints are qualified. However, the current printing quality evaluation system for gravure decorative paper is not perfect. In order to solve this problem, a method for evaluating quality of decorative paper based on analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and the entropy weight method (EWM) model is proposed in this paper. So as to verify the proposed model, decorative paper of different grades was selected as the experimental objects. Firstly, the data about five indices reflecting printing quality were measured. Secondly, the evaluation model was used to More >

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    Research on Printing Quality Evaluation of Decorative Paper Based on AHPEWM Model

  • Open Access

    REVIEW

    Recent Progress in Cellulose-Based Flexible Sensors

    Ningli An, Jingxuan Qin, Xing Zhou, Quandai Wang, Changqing Fang, Jiapeng Guo, Bin Nan
    Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.10, No.9, pp. 2319-2334, 2022, DOI:10.32604/jrm.2022.021030
    (This article belongs to the Special Issue: Green, Recycled and Intelligent Technologies in Printing and Packaging)
    Abstract Flexible sensors are attractive due to potential applications in body exercise and ambient gas monitoring systems. Cellulose and its derivatives have combined superiorities such as intrinsic and structural flexibility, ease of chemical functionalization, moisture sensitivity, and mechanical stability, enabling them to be promising candidates as flexible supporting substrates and flexible sensitive materials. Significant progress consequently has been achieved to improve mechanical, electrical, and chemical performance. The latest advance in materials synthesis, structure design, fabrication control, and working mechanism of novel cellulose-based flexible sensors are reviewed and discussed, including strain sensors, humidity sensors, and harmful gas More >

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    Recent Progress in Cellulose-Based Flexible Sensors

  • Open Access

    ARTICLE

    STRASS Dehazing: Spatio-Temporal Retinex-Inspired Dehazing by an Averaging of Stochastic Samples

    Zhe Yu, Bangyong Sun, Di Liu, Vincent Whannou de Dravo, Margarita Khokhlova, Siyuan Wu
    Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.10, No.5, pp. 1381-1395, 2022, DOI:10.32604/jrm.2022.018262
    (This article belongs to the Special Issue: Green, Recycled and Intelligent Technologies in Printing and Packaging)
    Abstract In this paper, we propose a neoteric and high-efficiency single image dehazing algorithm via contrast enhancement which is called STRASS (Spatio-Temporal Retinex-Inspired by an Averaging of Stochastic Samples) dehazing, it is realized by constructing an efficient high-pass filter to process haze images and taking the influence of human vision system into account in image dehazing principles. The novel high-pass filter works by getting each pixel using RSR and computes the average of the samples. Then the low-pass filter resulting from the minimum envelope in STRESS framework has been replaced by the average of the samples. More >

  • Open Access

    ARTICLE

    Process Evaluation, Tensile Properties and Fatigue Resistance of Chopped and Continuous Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastic Composites by 3D Printing

    Wei Chen, Qiuju Zhang, Han Cao, Ye Yuan
    Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.10, No.2, pp. 329-358, 2022, DOI:10.32604/jrm.2022.016374
    (This article belongs to the Special Issue: Green, Recycled and Intelligent Technologies in Printing and Packaging)
    Abstract The aim of this article was to comprehensively evaluate the manufacturing process, tensile properties and fatigue resistance of the chopped and continuous fiber reinforced thermoplastic composites (CFRTPCs) by 3D printing. The main results included: the common defects of the printed CFRTPCs contained redundant and accumulation defects, scratch and warping defects; the continuous fiber contributed to the dimensional stability and accuracy of width and thickness; associations between mass percentage of fiber reinforcement and the averages of elastic modulus, strain at break and ultimate tensile strength were approximately linear based on tensile test results; the fatigue resistance… More >

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    Process Evaluation, Tensile Properties and Fatigue Resistance of Chopped and Continuous Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastic Composites by 3D Printing

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