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ClearUltra-Stretchable Interconnects for High-Density Stretchable Electronics
This engineering paper presents fabrication methods for ultra-stretchable electrical interconnects at microscale dimensions for use in flexible electronics and wearable medical devices. It is a technical electronics paper with no direct connection to microplastics or environmental health.
Waste‐to‐Wearables: Stretchable Sensors from Discarded Mask Straps for Real‐Time Motion Detection
Researchers repurposed discarded face mask elastic straps—predominantly spandex and polyester—as substrates for stretchable wearable sensors, applying a simple coating process to produce conductive materials for real-time motion detection while reducing microplastic-generating waste.
Flexible, high-strength, and porous nano-nano composites based on bacterial cellulose for wearable electronics: a review
This review examined bacterial cellulose-based nano-nano composites for flexible wearable electronics, finding that bacterial cellulose's high purity, biodegradability, and three-dimensional nano-networked structure make it a promising sustainable alternative to petroleum-based polymer substrates.
Microplastics from Wearable Bioelectronic Devices: Sources, Risks, and Sustainable Solutions
This review highlights that polymer-based wearable bioelectronic devices — such as electronic skins used in continuous health monitoring — can shed microplastics during use, and calls for sustainable polymer design strategies to address this overlooked emission source.
Scalable and Reconfigurable Green Electronic Textiles with Personalized Comfort Management
Researchers developed scalable and reconfigurable green electronic textiles for personalized thermal comfort management, using sustainable materials and designs that minimize electronic waste generation and address the environmental concerns associated with conventional e-textile manufacturing.
Polyaniline Sandwiched Ultra-strong PVA/PAA Hybrid Hydrogel for Low-temperature Resistant Supercapacitors and Strain Sensors
Researchers developed a tough, low-temperature-resistant hydrogel material for use in flexible electronics and energy storage devices. While focused on materials engineering, advances in flexible electronics that avoid brittle plastic components could reduce certain types of plastic waste.
Recycling Lithium-Ion Batteries—Technologies, Environmental, Human Health, and Economic Issues—Mini-Systematic Literature Review
This review examines the environmental and health challenges of recycling lithium-ion batteries, which are central to modern electronics and electric vehicles. Traditional recovery methods like pyrometallurgy and hydrometallurgy carry environmental risks, and emerging approaches like membrane processes and bioleaching show promise but face scaling challenges. The authors highlight that improving lithium recovery efficiency is critical for both preventing environmental contamination and securing sustainable supplies of this essential resource.
Recent Advances in Sustainable Plastic Upcycling and Biopolymers
This review argues that sustainable biopolymers, produced from renewable resources via biological or hybrid chemical-biological processes, represent the most promising long-term solution to the plastic pollution crisis and climate-related concerns about fossil-fuel-derived plastics. Key challenges include achieving the mechanical properties, production costs, and large-scale manufacturing needed to replace conventional plastics.
Electrode Batteries: Organic Material's influence on Lithium-Ion Battery Performance
This review examines how organic materials integrated into lithium-ion battery electrodes improve energy density, cycling stability, and charge-discharge performance compared to traditional inorganic electrode materials. The paper synthesizes advances in synthesis and design of organic electrode compounds that offer greater flexibility, higher capacity retention, and more sustainable sourcing.
Design principles for LiFePO4 electrodes with improved recyclability
This study examines design principles for improving the recyclability of LiFePO4 lithium-ion battery electrodes, arguing that sustainability must be built into electrode architecture from the manufacturing stage rather than retrofitted during end-of-life processing.
Fabrics and Garments as Sensors: A Research Update
This review examines the latest research on smart fabrics and garments that incorporate sensors for monitoring physiological or environmental parameters, covering advances in fiber-based electronics, wearable health monitors, and environmental sensing textiles. The work is peripherally relevant to microplastics research as the field explores how textile technology could be redesigned to reduce fiber shedding.
Biodegradable Polymers: The Future of Sustainable Plastic Alternatives
This review examines biodegradable polymers as sustainable alternatives to petroleum-based plastics, evaluating their potential to reduce microplastic pollution and ecological degradation. The authors assess the performance, environmental fate, and scalability of current biodegradable materials, identifying key challenges for widespread adoption across packaging and consumer product applications.
Addressing the sustainability challenges for polymers in liquid formulations
This perspectives piece identifies the sustainability challenges facing polymer use in liquid formulations, particularly around persistence and environmental fate, and reviews the role of chemistry in developing more sustainable alternatives. A call to action is made for the field to prioritize solution-oriented research.
A Systematic Literature Review on Environmental Sustainability Issues of Flexible Packaging: Potential Pathways for Academic Research and Managerial Practice
This systematic review identified key environmental sustainability challenges in flexible packaging, including plastic waste accumulation, microplastic generation, and recycling barriers, while mapping research gaps and calling for integrated lifecycle approaches to reduce its ecological burden.
Smart E-Textiles: Overview of Components and Outlook
This review provides a comprehensive overview of smart electronic textiles (e-textiles), examining their key components including conductive fibers, sensors, and energy harvesting systems. The study highlights the gap between academic research and commercial viability, and discusses environmental concerns related to synthetic textile fibers and their potential to shed microplastic particles.
Applications in Sustainable Fashion
Researchers reviewed the application of hydrogel and aerogel technologies in sustainable fashion, examining how these materials can address environmental concerns including microplastic pollution, excessive water use, and non-biodegradable waste while enabling closed-loop production models and advanced functions such as energy-harvesting footwear.
Sustainable and imperceptible augmentation of living structures with organic bioelectronic fibres
Not relevant to microplastics — this bioelectronics study demonstrates imperceptibly thin PEDOT:PSS organic fibers that can be tethered directly onto living surfaces like human skin and plant leaves to enable biopotential sensing and wearable electronics.
Is There Hope to Switch Traditional Plastics into Sustainable?
This review paper examines whether traditional petroleum-based plastics can realistically be replaced by more sustainable alternatives, surveying developments in bioplastics, biodegradable polymers, recycling technologies, and regulatory shifts. It concludes that while promising innovations exist — from renewable-source plastics to circular economy strategies — significant technical and economic hurdles remain before sustainable plastics can fully displace conventional ones. The paper is relevant to microplastic pollution as a systemic solution-oriented overview of how to reduce plastic waste at its source.
Combining Flexible and Sustainable Design Principles for Evaluating Designs: Textile Recycling Application
Researchers developed a framework combining flexible and sustainable design principles to evaluate textile recycling technologies. The study addresses the growing environmental burden of textile waste in the U.S., where over 15 million tons are discarded annually with less than 15% recycled, contributing to microplastic pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. The proposed evaluation method aims to help identify recycling approaches that are both economically viable and environmentally responsible.
Fabrication of surface embedded silver cellulose-based flexible transparent electrodes by self-assembly
Researchers fabricated flexible transparent electrodes by embedding silver nanowire networks within the surface layer of cellulose derived from waste corn straw, creating sustainable, biodegradable alternatives to conventional electronic components suitable for reel-to-reel processing.
Benefits and Drawbacks of Bioplastic as an Alternative of Conventional Plastic towards Sustainable Plastic T
This review examines bioplastics derived from renewable biomass sources (such as corn starch, vegetable oils, and food waste) as sustainable alternatives to conventional petroleum-based plastics, evaluating their benefits and drawbacks across environmental performance, biodegradability, and scalability. The article explores whether bioplastics represent a viable pathway toward more sustainable plastic use given growing concerns over the non-biodegradable nature and resource intensity of conventional plastics.
Sustainable Textile Industry: An Overview
This review examines the environmental sustainability challenges of the textile industry, covering chemical pollution, high water and energy consumption, and solid waste generation at every production stage, while discussing strategies such as sustainable materials, cleaner processing, and circular economy approaches.
Laser-Induced MXene-Functionalized Graphene Nanoarchitectonics-Based Microsupercapacitor for Health Monitoring Application
Researchers developed a flexible, wearable energy storage device that can monitor pulse and other body signals in real time. While not directly about microplastics, this type of wearable health technology could eventually be used to track health impacts from environmental exposures. The device achieved high energy density and lasted through thousands of charge cycles, making it practical for long-term health monitoring.
Bio-based plastics in a circular economy: A review of recovery pathways and implications for product design
Researchers reviewed how bio-based plastics — made from renewable plant sources — can be recovered and recycled at end-of-life, finding that the feasibility of eight different recovery methods depends heavily not just on plastic chemistry but on how products are designed, and offering guidance for designers to improve recyclability.