Advancing marine cellulose-based packaging: A review on sustainable biorefinery perspectives

IF 5.8 2区生物学 Q1 AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING

Biomass & Bioenergy Pub Date : 2025-04-03 DOI:10.1016/j.biombioe.2025.107849

Senthilkumar Palanisamy , Barani Kumar Saravana Kumar , Gayathri Sivakumar , Sakshadhan Selvan , Jintae Lee , Devaraj Bharathi

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The growing environmental effect of traditional plastic packaging has caused a growing search for sustainable alternatives, and cellulose has emerged as an attractive option due to its mechanical strength, biodegradability, and renewable nature. Marine-derived cellulose from algae, mangroves, and marine sediments remains poorly understood despite its unique structural and functional advantages, whereas a significant amount of research has been conducted on terrestrial cellulose sources including plants and agricultural waste. This review emphasizes marine cellulose's potential for biodegradable and functional food packaging applications through examining its biological origins, isolation techniques, and physicochemical characteristics. The increased moisture resistance, biodegradability, and flexibility of marine-derived cellulose are highlighted in compared to terrestrial cellulose, making it an excellent option for sustainable packaging. It remains a number of challenges to be resolved, such as low extraction efficiency, expensive processing, and inconsistent physicochemical characteristics. Unlocking the full potential of marine cellulose requires addressing these technical and financial obstacles through scalability studies, material functionalization, and green extraction techniques. This review provides a comprehensive evaluation of marine cellulose as an alternative packaging material and identifies key research gaps and future directions. By bridging the knowledge gap in marine cellulose research and its industrial applications, this study contributes to the ongoing efforts to reduce plastic pollution, promote a circular bioeconomy, and enhance environmental sustainability.

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Biomass & Bioenergy 工程技术-能源与燃料

CiteScore

11.50

自引率

3.30%

发文量

258

审稿时长

60 days

期刊介绍： Biomass & Bioenergy is an international journal publishing original research papers and short communications, review articles and case studies on biological resources, chemical and biological processes, and biomass products for new renewable sources of energy and materials. The scope of the journal extends to the environmental, management and economic aspects of biomass and bioenergy. Key areas covered by the journal: • Biomass: sources, energy crop production processes, genetic improvements, composition. Please note that research on these biomass subjects must be linked directly to bioenergy generation. • Biological Residues: residues/rests from agricultural production, forestry and plantations (palm, sugar etc), processing industries, and municipal sources (MSW). Papers on the use of biomass residues through innovative processes/technological novelty and/or consideration of feedstock/system sustainability (or unsustainability) are welcomed. However waste treatment processes and pollution control or mitigation which are only tangentially related to bioenergy are not in the scope of the journal, as they are more suited to publications in the environmental arena. Papers that describe conventional waste streams (ie well described in existing literature) that do not empirically address ''new'' added value from the process are not suitable for submission to the journal. • Bioenergy Processes: fermentations, thermochemical conversions, liquid and gaseous fuels, and petrochemical substitutes • Bioenergy Utilization: direct combustion, gasification, electricity production, chemical processes, and by-product remediation • Biomass and the Environment: carbon cycle, the net energy efficiency of bioenergy systems, assessment of sustainability, and biodiversity issues.