Issue 5, 2018

Inedible saccharides: a platform for CO2 capturing

Abstract

The economic viability of eco-friendly and renewable materials promotes the development of an alternative technology for climate change mitigation. Investigations reported over the past few years have allowed understanding the mechanism of action for a wide spectrum of saccharides toward carbon dioxide (CO2), in terms of reactivity, reversibility, stability and uptake. Exploiting bio-renewables, viz., inedible saccharides, to reduce the anthropogenic carbon footprint upon providing a sustainable and promising technology that is of interest to different groups of scientists, to overcome demerits associated with the current state-of-the-art aqueous amine scrubbing agents, following a “green chemistry guideline”, by employing materials with properties relevant to the environment toward sustainable development. The interdisciplinary nature of research in this area provides a large body of literature that would meet the interest of the broad readership of different multidisciplinary fields. Although many reports emphasize the use of biomass in various industrial products ranging from pharmaceutics, medical preparations, soaps, textiles, cosmetics, household cleaners, and so on, to our knowledge there is no focused article that addresses the application of saccharides for CO2 sequestration. In this review, we highlight the recent advances on the use of oligo-, poly- and cyclic saccharides to achieve a reversible binding of CO2. The future research directions are discussed to provide insight toward achieving sustainable development through implementing bio-renewables.

Graphical abstract: Inedible saccharides: a platform for CO2 capturing

Article information

Article type
Minireview
Submitted
31 okt 2017
Accepted
25 dec 2017
First published
05 jan 2018
This article is Open Access

All publication charges for this article have been paid for by the Royal Society of Chemistry
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Chem. Sci., 2018,9, 1088-1100

Inedible saccharides: a platform for CO2 capturing

A. K. Qaroush, H. S. Alshamaly, S. S. Alazzeh, R. H. Abeskhron, K. I. Assaf and A. F. Eftaiha, Chem. Sci., 2018, 9, 1088 DOI: 10.1039/C7SC04706A

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