TY - JOUR
T1 - Transformation of Biomass DNA into Biodegradable Materials from Gels to Plastics for Reducing Petrochemical Consumption
AU - Wang, Dong
AU - Cui, Jinhui
AU - Gan, Mingzhe
AU - Xue, Zhaohui
AU - Wang, Jing
AU - Liu, Peifeng
AU - Liu, Peifeng
AU - Hu, Yue
AU - Pardo, Yehudah
AU - Hamada, Shogo
AU - Yang, Dayong
AU - Luo, Dan
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Lixin Zhang for providing plasmids. D.W. thanks Ka-Kyung Kim, Brandon Shim, Qian Sun, Grace Yq Han, and Ying Wang for assistance. J.C. and M.G. acknowledge support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21778071 and 31400087) and the Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics (Y5AAS11001). M.G. acknowledges support from the Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS (2015257). D.Y. acknowledges support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21621004, 21575101, and 21622404). J.W. acknowledges support from the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK 20190822). We acknowledge financial support from the Directorate for Engineering National Science Foundation (CBET-1530522 and CBET-1844310). This work made use of the Cornell Center for Materials Research Shared Facilities which are supported through the NSF MRSEC program (DMR-1719875).
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PY - 2020/6/3
Y1 - 2020/6/3
N2 - Ancient biomass is the main source for petrochemicals including plastics, which are inherently difficult to be degraded, increasingly polluting the earth's ecosystem including our oceans. To reduce the consumption by substituting or even replacing most of the petrochemicals with degradable and renewable materials is inevitable and urgent for a sustainable future. We report here a unique strategy to directly convert biomass DNA, at a large scale and with low cost, to diverse materials including gels, membranes, and plastics without breaking down DNA first into building blocks and without polymer syntheses. With excellent and sometimes unexpected, useful properties, we applied these biomass DNA materials for versatile applications for drug delivery, unusual adhesion, multifunctional composites, patterning, and everyday plastic objects. We also achieved cell-free protein production that had not been possible by petrochemical-based products. We expect our biomass DNA conversion approach to be adaptable to other biomass molecules including biomass proteins. We envision a promising and exciting era coming where biomass may replace petrochemicals for most if not all petro-based products.
AB - Ancient biomass is the main source for petrochemicals including plastics, which are inherently difficult to be degraded, increasingly polluting the earth's ecosystem including our oceans. To reduce the consumption by substituting or even replacing most of the petrochemicals with degradable and renewable materials is inevitable and urgent for a sustainable future. We report here a unique strategy to directly convert biomass DNA, at a large scale and with low cost, to diverse materials including gels, membranes, and plastics without breaking down DNA first into building blocks and without polymer syntheses. With excellent and sometimes unexpected, useful properties, we applied these biomass DNA materials for versatile applications for drug delivery, unusual adhesion, multifunctional composites, patterning, and everyday plastic objects. We also achieved cell-free protein production that had not been possible by petrochemical-based products. We expect our biomass DNA conversion approach to be adaptable to other biomass molecules including biomass proteins. We envision a promising and exciting era coming where biomass may replace petrochemicals for most if not all petro-based products.
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U2 - 10.1021/jacs.0c02438
DO - 10.1021/jacs.0c02438
M3 - Article
C2 - 32392407
AN - SCOPUS:85085909519
VL - 142
SP - 10114
EP - 10124
JO - Journal of the American Chemical Society
JF - Journal of the American Chemical Society
SN - 0002-7863
IS - 22
ER -