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Papers on polymers and materials reducing the use of hazardous substances in products.

ISSN: 2049-1239
eISSN: 2049-1239

Aims and scope

With increased strain on petroleum resources and growing markets in China, India and across the globe, the importance of fiscally and environmentally responsible materials has never been higher. These green materials build from the field of green chemistry, the utilization of principles to reduce or eliminate hazardous substances in the design, manufacture and application of chemical products. At the most basic level, research in green materials looks to develop alternatives to traditional materials or processes that offer an environmental advantage.

The focus of Green Materials relates to polymers and materials, with an emphasis on reducing the use of hazardous substances in the design, manufacture and application of products.

Submissions to Green Materials should clearly elucidate how the research pertains to both Sustainability and Materials Science and Engineering, broadly defined.

Subjects not in the scope are such things as disposal of waste by incorporation into materials or other non-functional addition, common supplementary cementitious materials or other geologic materials, non-novel materials, synthesis or processing methods such as changing out one common plant extract for another that is equivalent or any other research more suited to a traditional ICE construction oriented journal.

Award-winning papers

Each year, the paper rated best by the Editor will be given the ICE's Green Materials Prize.

Awarded annually since 2014, this prize is presented to the best paper published in Green Materials.

Each year we award authors from both industry and academia who have produced work judged by their peers to be of exceptional quality and benefit to the civil engineering, construction and materials science community. Papers outside of our archive (published after 2002) are free to read here in perpetuity as part of our commitment to furthering knowledge and best practice.

Year awarded Paper title
2022 Mixed-mode fracture behavior of 3D-printed PLA with zigzag filling
2021 Turning low-cost recycled paper into high-value binder-free all-cellulose panel products
2020 Polyhydroxybutyrate/hemp biocomposite: tuning performances by process and compatibilisation
2019 Synthesis and characterization of epoxy resins from fast pyrolysis bio-oil
2018 Sustainable cardanol-based ionic surfactants
2017 Progress in the synthesis of sustainable polymers from terpenes and terpenoids
2016 Bio-based epoxy resin toughening with cashew nut shell liquid-derived resin
2015 CO2-responsive anionic wormlike micelles based on natural erucic acid
2014 Polycarbonates from biorenewable diols via carbonate metathesis polymerization
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