Present Status and Future Prospects of Jute in Nanotechnology: A Review

Abstract

Nanotechnology has transformed the world with its diverse applications, ranging from industrial developments to impacting our daily lives. It has multiple applications throughout financial sectors and enables the development of facilitating scientific endeavors with extensive commercial potentials. Nanomaterials, especially the ones which have shown biomedical and other health‐related properties, have added new dimensions to the field of nanotechnology. Recently, the use of bioresources in nanotechnology has gained significant attention from the scientific community due to its 100 % eco‐friendly features, availability, and low costs. In this context, jute offers a considerable potential. Globally, its plant produces the second most common natural cellulose fibers and a large amount of jute sticks as a byproduct. The main chemical compositions of jute fibers and sticks, which have a trace amount of ash content, are cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin. This makes jute as an ideal source of pure nanocellulose, nano‐lignin, and nanocarbon preparation. It has also been used as a source in the evolution of nanomaterials used in various applications. In addition, hemicellulose and lignin, which are extractable from jute fibers and sticks, could be utilized as a reductant/stabilizer for preparing other nanomaterials. This review highlights the status and prospects of jute in nanotechnology. Different research areas in which jute can be applied, such as in nanocellulose preparation, as scaffolds for other nanomaterials, catalysis, carbon preparation, life sciences, coatings, polymers, energy storage, drug delivery, fertilizer delivery, electrochemistry, reductant, and stabilizer for synthesizing other nanomaterials, petroleum industry, paper industry, polymeric nanocomposites, sensors, coatings, and electronics, have been summarized in detail. We hope that these prospects will serve as a precursor of jute‐based nanotechnology research in the future.

Current Development and Future Perspective on Natural Jute Fibers and Their Biocomposites

“…Jute fiber containing cellulose, hemicelluloses, lignin and a small amount of ash makes it a suitable raw material for activated or non-activated carbon preparation utilizing a number of methods such as pyrolysis with or without chemical and physical activations. Having a fine porous structure and a large specific surface area, carbon-derived from jute could be used in a number of applications such as energy storage, water treatment, and sensing [ 116 , 117 , 118 , 119 ] due to its capacitance, filtering and electronic properties respectively.…”

Recent Progress in Carbonaceous and Redox‐Active Nanoarchitectures for Hybrid Supercapacitors: Performance Evaluation, Challenges, and Future Prospects

“…Carbonaceous materials demonstrated uniform nanostructures and were extensively applied at electrode materials in HSCs [168,169] . In addition, ACs exhibit a range of performance characteristics when used as electrode materials for HSCs, because of the diversity in their structural and morphological compositions [62,129,170–173] . Among the various electrode materials, carbonaceous nanomaterials are more appealing because they can be fabricated in different forms (e.g., nanoparticles, nanofibers, nanotubes, nanorods, and nanospheres) and exhibit rich dimensionality [50] .…”

Thermal Performance Improvement for Different Strategies of Battery Thermal Management Systems Combined with Jute—A Comparison Study

“…Jute is considered a low-cost, natural fiber [47] and cellulosic material [48]. Because of its attractive cooling efficiency, light weight, low cost, and environmental benefits [49][50][51], it was chosen to insert into a battery thermal management system.…”