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REVIEW

Recent Developments in Bioadhesives and Binders

Hong Lei¹, Xiaojian Zhou², Antonio Pizzi^3,*, Guanben Du^2,*, Xuedong Xi²

1 College of Chemistry and Material Engineering, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, 311300, China
2 Yunnan Key Laboratory of Wood Adhesives and Glued Products, College of Material Science and Engineering, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming, 650224, China
3 Laboratoire d’Etude et de Recherche sur le MAteriau Bois (LERMAB), University of Lorraine, Blvd. des Aiguillettes, Nancy, 54000, France

* Corresponding Authors: Antonio Pizzi. Email: ; Guanben Du. Email:

(This article belongs to the Special Issue: Renewable and Biosourced Adhesives-2023)

Journal of Renewable Materials 2025, 13(2), 199-249. https://doi.org/10.32604/jrm.2025.02024-0048

Received 27 November 2024; Accepted 03 January 2025; Issue published 20 February 2025

Abstract

This review is composed of three main parts each of which is written by well-known top specialists that have been, in a way or other, also the main participants of the majority of the developments reported. Thus, after a general part covering the grand lines and more in-depth views of more recent tannin, lignin, carbohydrate and soy bioadhesives, some mix of the other bio raw materials with soy protein and soy flour and some other differently sourced bioadhesives for wood, this review presents a more in-depth part on starch-based wood adhesives and a more in-depth part covering plant protein-based adhesives. It must be kept in mind that the review is focused on completely or almost completely biosourced adhesives, the fashionable adhesives derived from mixes of biosourced materials with synthetic resins having been intentionally excluded. This choice was made as the latter constitute only an intermediate interval, possibly temporary if even for a somewhat long times, towards a final full bioeconomy of scale in this field. This review also focuses on more recent results, mainly obtained in the last 10–20 years, thus on adhesive formulations really innovative and sometimes even non-traditional. In all these fields there is still a lot of possibility of innovation for relevant formulation as this field is still in rapid growth.

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