This study aims to present an integrated process that can be used to produce biomedical and biological active components from the fruit shell of Abel. Through the Foss method, Aldehyde, acid compounds, acyl and alcohol compounds account for 22.7, 15.93, 0.24 and 61.13% of the extractives which were extracted from fruit shell by methanol solvents. Furfural, Pyrazole-4-carboxaldehyde, 1-methyl- and 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural account for 4.74, 1.22 and 58.78% of the extractives which were extracted from the fruit shell of Abel by ethanol solvents. Aldehyde, acid and amine compounds account for 5.01, 56.18 and 7.20% of the extractives which were extracted from the fruit shell of Abel by ethyl acetate solvents. The extractives of fresh flesh of bayberry were rich in rare drug, biomedical and biological activities.

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Inspired by the hierarchically ordered “brick and mortar” (BM) architecture of natural nacre, in this study a rational assembly of boron nitride (BN) nanosheets was introduced into a mixture of trimethylolpropane triglycidyl ether (TTE) and soy protein isolate (SPI), and a strong and multifunctional SPI-based nanocomposite film with multinetwork structure was synthesized. At a low BN loading (<0.5%), the resulting multifunctional film was flexible, antiultraviolet, and nearly transparent and also displayed good thermal diffusion ability and exhibited an excellent combination of high tensile strength (36.4 MPa) and thermal conductivity (TC, 2.40 W·m–1·K–1), surpassing the performances of various types of petroleum-based plastics (displayed a tensile strength ranging from 1.9 to 21 MPa and TC ranging from 0.55–2.13 W·m–1·K–1), including nine different types of materials currently utilized for mobile phone shells, suggesting its vast potential in practical applications.

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We used an innovative approach involving hot pressing, low energy consumption, and no adhesive to transform bamboo biomass into a natural sustainable fiber-based biocomposite for structural and furniture applications. Analyses showed strong internal bonding through mechanical “nail-like” nano substances, hydrogen, and ester and ether bonds. The biocomposite encompasses a 10-fold increase in internal bonding strength with improved water resistance, fire safety, and environmentally friendly properties as compared to existing furniture materials using hazardous formaldehyde-based adhesives. As compared to natural bamboo material, this new biocomposite has improved fire and water resistance, while there is no need for toxic adhesives (mostly made from formaldehyde-based resin), which eases the concern of harmful formaldehyde-based VOC emission and ensures better indoor air quality. This surpasses existing structural and furniture materials made by synthetic adhesives. Interestingly, our approach can 100% convert discarded bamboo biomass into this biocomposite, which represents a potentially cost reduction alternative with high revenue. The underlying fragment riveting and cell collapse binding are obviously a new technology approach that offers an economically and sustainable high-performance biocomposite that provides solutions to structural and furniture materials bound with synthetic adhesives.

Soy protein isolate (SPI) is envisioned as a promising alternative to fabricate “green” flexible electronics, showing great potential in the field of flexible wearable electronics. However, it is challenging to simultaneously achieve conductive film-based human motion-monitoring strain sensors with reliable fatigue resistance, robust mechanical property, environmental degradability, and sensing capability of human motions. Herein, we prepared a series of SPI-based nanocomposite films by embedding a surface-hydroxylated high-dielectric constant inorganic filler, BaTiO3, (HBT) as interspersed nanoparticles into a biodegradable SPI substrate. In particular, the fabricated film comprising 0.5 wt % HBT and glycerin (GL), namely, SPI–HBT0.5–GL0.5, presents multifunctional properties, including a combination of excellent toughness, tensile strength, conductivity, translucence, recyclability, and excellent thermal stability. Meanwhile, this multifunctional film could be simply degraded in phosphate buffered saline solution and does not cause any pollution to the environment. Attractively, wearable sensors prepared with this particular material (SPI–HBT0.5–GL0.5) displayed excellent biocompatibility, prevented the occurrence of an immune response, and could accurately monitor various types of human joint motions and successfully remain operable after 10,000 cycles. These properties make the developed SPI-based film a great candidate in formulating biobased and multifunctional wearable electronics.

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