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En route to realistic sustainable structural fiber-reinforced polymers in a circular economy
Seychal, Guillem; Perli, Gabriel; Goldberg, Anne et al.
2025In Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials, 8 (6)
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Keywords :
Circular economy; Covalent adaptable networks; Fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites; Green polymers; Recycling; Sustainable materials; Covalent adaptable network; En-route; End of lives; Environmental footprints; Fiber reinforced polymer composites; Fiber-reinforced polymers; Fibre reinforced polymers; Ceramics and Composites; Materials Science (miscellaneous); Polymers and Plastics; Materials Chemistry
Abstract :
[en] Fiber-reinforced polymers (FRP) have faced exponential growth for decades due to their exceptional strength-to-weight ratio, permitting previously unreachable performances. In particular, in the necessity of diminishing the human overall environmental footprint, they allow safer, lighter, and more performing structures with on-demand properties and infinite engineered possibilities. As a consequence, substantial materials and energy savings can be expected. Yet, the environmental footprint of these materials and structures remains poor. This is attributed to their sourcing (oil-based mainly), their highly energy-intensive production, the complexity of the material, and the challenging handling of their end-of-life. Also, their highly multidisciplinary nature, requiring organic and polymer chemistry, material, processing, and mechanical engineering, among others, complexifies the interactions between actors to embrace and solve these issues fully. To this date, FRP industries remain a fully linear economy that cannot be carried in a (more) sustainable future. This review provides a multidisciplinary and extensive overview of current market needs and research development over all aspects of FRP to guide both research and markets toward sustainable and circular solutions. Sourcing, production, performances, and end-of-life are discussed, and, whenever possible, the environmental, economic, societal, and industrial needs are considered. The work intends to provide a general overview and future perspective to, one day, reach truly sustainable and circular structures.
Research center :
CIRMAP - Centre d'Innovation et de Recherche en Matériaux Polymères
Disciplines :
Materials science & engineering
Author, co-author :
Seychal, Guillem  ;  Université de Mons - UMONS > Faculté des Sciences > Service des Matériaux Polymères et Composites ; POLYMAT and Department of Advanced Polymers and Materials: Physics, Chemistry, and Technology, Faculty of Chemistry, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
Perli, Gabriel;  POLYMAT and Department of Advanced Polymers and Materials: Physics, Chemistry, and Technology, Faculty of Chemistry, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
Goldberg, Anne ;  Université de Mons - UMONS > Faculté des Sciences > Service des Matériaux Polymères et Composites
Sardon, Haritz;  POLYMAT and Department of Advanced Polymers and Materials: Physics, Chemistry, and Technology, Faculty of Chemistry, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
Aranburu, Nora;  POLYMAT and Department of Advanced Polymers and Materials: Physics, Chemistry, and Technology, Faculty of Chemistry, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
Raquez, Jean-Marie  ;  Université de Mons - UMONS > Faculté des Sciences > Service des Matériaux Polymères et Composites
Language :
English
Title :
En route to realistic sustainable structural fiber-reinforced polymers in a circular economy
Publication date :
December 2025
Journal title :
Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials
ISSN :
2522-0128
eISSN :
2522-0136
Publisher :
Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Volume :
8
Issue :
6
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
Research unit :
S816 - Matériaux Polymères et Composites
Research institute :
R400 - Institut de Recherche en Science et Ingénierie des Matériaux
Funders :
Universidad del País Vasco
Funding text :
Open Access funding provided thanks to the CRUE-CSIC agreement with Springer Nature. The work has been funded by the European Union\u2019s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sk\u0142odowska-Curie grant agreement No 955700 and No 101154935, F.R.S.-FNRS and WEL-T.The authors would like to thank the NIPU-EJD project for its financial support. This project received funding from the European Union\u2019s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sk\u0142odowska-Curie grant agreement No 955700 and No 101154935. JMR is a F.R.S.-FNRS Research Director and a WEL-T principal investigator, and thanks F.R.S.-FNRS for funding.
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