The DOI matches its Crossref record; 57 of the 57 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Lignin to Materials: A Focused Review on Recent Novel Lignin Applications
Open accessAbstract
In recent decades, advancements in lignin application include the synthesis of polymers, dyes, adhesives and fertilizers. There has recently been a shift from perceiving lignin as a waste product to viewing lignin as a potential raw material for valuable products. More recently, considerable attention has been placed in sectors, like the medical, electrochemical, and polymer sectors, where lignin can be significantly valorized. Despite some technical challenges in lignin recovery and depolymerization, lignin is viewed as a promising material due to it being biocompatible, cheap, and abundant in nature. In the medical sector, lignins can be used as wound dressings, pharmaceuticals, and drug delivery materials. They can also be used for electrochemical energy materials and 3D printing lignin–plastic composite materials. This review covers the recent research progress in lignin valorization, specifically focusing on medical, electrochemical, and 3D printing applications. The technoeconomic assessment of lignin application is also discussed.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Hydrogel: Preparation, characterization, and applications: A review
Ahmed, E. M. (2015) · Journal of Advanced Research · doi:10.1016/j.jare.2013.07.006 · Cited by 5,800
Lignin Valorization: Improving Lignin Processing in the Biorefinery
Ragauskas, A. J., Beckham, G. T., Biddy, M. J., Chandra, R., Chen, F., Davis, M. F., Davison, B. H., Dixon, R. A., Gilna, P., Keller, M., et al. (2014) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1246843 · Cited by 4,125
A concise review of current lignin production, applications, products and their environmental impact
Bajwa, D. S., Pourhashem, G., Ullah, A. H., & Bajwa, S. G. (2019) · Industrial Crops and Products · doi:10.1016/j.indcrop.2019.111526 · Cited by 1,270
Lignin utilization: A review of lignin depolymerization from various aspects
Chio, C., Sain, M., & Qin, W. (2019) · Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.rser.2019.03.008 · Cited by 1,209
Organosolv pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass for enzymatic hydrolysis
Zhao, X., Cheng, K., & Liu, D. (2009) · Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology · doi:10.1007/s00253-009-1883-1 · Cited by 1,188
Liquid fuels, hydrogen and chemicals from lignin: A critical review
Azadi, P., Inderwildi, O. R., Farnood, R., & King, D. A. (2013) · Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.rser.2012.12.022 · Cited by 1,066
Production and Application of Lignosulfonates and Sulfonated Lignin
Aro, T., & Fatehi, P. (2017) · ChemSusChem · doi:10.1002/cssc.201700082 · Cited by 863
Organic solvent pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass for biofuels and biochemicals: A review
Zhang, K., Pei, Z., & Wang, D. (2016) · Bioresource Technology · doi:10.1016/j.biortech.2015.08.102 · Cited by 755
Collins, M. N., Nechifor, M., Tanasă, F., Zănoagă, M., McLoughlin, A., Stróżyk, M. A., Culebras, M., & Teacă, C.-A. (2019) · International Journal of Biological Macromolecules · doi:10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2019.03.069 · Cited by 486
Laftah, W. A., Hashim, S., & Ibrahim, A. N. (2011) · Polymer-Plastics Technology and Engineering · doi:10.1080/03602559.2011.593082 · Cited by 474
Cited by
He, H., Zhang, R., Zhang, P., Wang, P., Chen, N., Qian, B., Zhang, L., Yu, J., & Dai, B. (2023) · Advanced Science · doi:10.1002/advs.202205557 · Cited by 432
Das, A., Ringu, T., Ghosh, S., & Pramanik, N. (2023) · Polymer Bulletin · doi:10.1007/s00289-022-04443-4 · Cited by 380
The role of lignin and lignin-based materials in sustainable construction – A comprehensive review
Jędrzejczak, P., Collins, M. N., Jesionowski, T., & Klapiszewski, Ł. (2021) · International Journal of Biological Macromolecules · doi:10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2021.07.125 · Cited by 339
Li, X.-Y., Guo, T.-S., Li, M.-F., & Peng, F. (2021) · Journal of Materials Research and Technology · doi:10.1016/j.jmrt.2021.07.017 · Cited by 30
Metadata
- Authors
- Yu, O., & Kim, K. H.
- Venue
- Applied Sciences
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2020-07-03
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 13
- Pages
- 4626
- ISSN
- 2076-3417 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3038749753
- Cited by
- 253
- References
- 57
- FWCI
- 8.85
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Lignin to Materials: A Focused Review on Recent Novel Lignin Applications. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.3390/app10134626
- The paper
- Yu, O., & Kim, K. H. (2020). Lignin to Materials: A Focused Review on Recent Novel Lignin Applications. Applied Sciences. https://doi.org/10.3390/app10134626
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
