TY - GEN A1 - Erekath, Swathi A1 - Seidlitz, Holger A1 - Schreiner, Monika A1 - Dreyer, Christian T1 - Food for future: Exploring cutting-edge technology and practices in vertical farm T2 - Sustainable Cities and Society N2 - With the growing urbanized population, vertical farming becomes indispensable in eradicating hunger and ensuring food security for the future. Food security has become a major challenge for the future owing to the scarcity of land, rising global population, urbanization, and polluted soil and water resources. In this scenario, vertical farming as an innovative food production technology caters increased productivity with limited resources and improved carbon footprint. The review begins with a brief introduction to the concept of vertical farming, its opportunities and implications on the economy, environment, and society as a whole, following with an in-depth qualitative analysis of the cutting-edge innovations/technologies are presented in detail. Contrary to the numerous research focusing on mere analysis of economic viability and statistical analysis, the aim is to introduce real cutting-edge technologies that address the challenges of vertical farms such as lack of technical skills or energy requirements. The recent advances of vertical farms includes construction of outer vertical structure and growing shelves using light weight and transparent polymer composites, engineered and tunable LEDs lightings, 3-D printed and recyclable growing substrates, AI-integrated IoTs for environment control, harvesting materials for renewable energy storage etc. Such material innovations with inclusion of AI and robotics transform automated vertical farming into ‘state of the art’ agricultural technology. Production shelf fabricated using UV cured GBOV-glass fiber composite with 60% transparency can overcome the material weight limitation, corrosion, light obstructions etc. associated with the conventional steel shelves. Replacing non-renewable fossil fuels using renewable energy harvested by carbon dots, fluorescent materials, and perovskite solar cells is recommended to minimize the high capital investments associated with energy as well as to reduce the environmental impact. Smart materials such as phase change materials and thermoresponsive windows control the amount of energy expended whereas smart substrate promotes resource management. Application of the newest technology AI in vertical farming facilitates precise control of environment, early pest detection, automation of farming processes, data-driven decision making and precision agriculture. In short, vertical farms utilizing modern innovations of science and technology caters enhanced productivity, improved quality, reduced cost, resource management and sustainability. Hence, automated and sustainable vertical farms promoting global food security and circularity have the potential to transform into burgeoning technology of future. KW - Transportation KW - Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment KW - Civil and Structural Engineering KW - Geography, Planning and Development Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2024.105357 SN - 2210-6707 VL - 106 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Recupido, Federica A1 - Lama, Giuseppe Cesare A1 - Steffen, Sebastian A1 - Dreyer, Christian A1 - Seidlitz, Holger A1 - Russo, Vincenzo A1 - Lavorgna, Marino A1 - De Luca Bossa, Ferdinando A1 - Silvano, Selena A1 - Boggioni, Laura A1 - Verdolotti, Letizia T1 - Efficient recycling pathway of bio-based composite polyurethane foams via sustainable diamine T2 - Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety N2 - Aminolysis is widely recognized as a valuable chemical route for depolymerizing polymeric materials containing ester, amide, or urethane functional groups, including polyurethane foams. Bio-based polyurethane foams, pristine and reinforced with 40 wt% of sustainable fillers, were depolymerized in the presence of bio-derived butane-1,4-diamine, BDA. A process comparison was made using fossil-derived ethane-1,2-diamine, EDA, by varying amine/polyurethane ratio (F/A, 1:1 and 1:0.6). The obtained depolymerized systems were analyzed by FTIR and NMR characterizations to understand the effect of both diamines on the degradation pathway. The use of bio-based BDA seemed to be more effective with respect to conventional EDA, owing to its stronger basicity (and thus higher nucleophilicity), corresponding to faster depolymerization rates. BDA-based depolymerized systems were then employed to prepare second-generation bio-based composite polyurethane foams by partial replacement of isocyanate components (20 wt%). The morphological, mechanical, and thermal conductivity properties of the second-generation polyurethane foams were evaluated. The best performances (σ10 %=71 ± 9 kPa, λ = 0.042 ± 0.015 W∙ m-1 ∙K-1) were attained by employing the lowest F/A ratio (1:0.6); this demonstrates their potential application in different sectors such as packaging or construction, fulfilling the paradigm of the circular economy. KW - Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis KW - Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health KW - Pollution KW - General Medicine Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoenv.2023.115758 SN - 0147-6513 VL - 269 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Dreyer, Christian A1 - Schneider, J. A1 - Keil, Norbert A1 - Zawadzki, Crispin A1 - Yao, Huihai T1 - Material Development for Integrated Optics, Microelectronics and Display-Technology - Selected Examples Y1 - 2005 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Keil, Norbert A1 - Yao, Huihai A1 - Zawadzki, Crispin A1 - Radmer, O. A1 - Beyer, F. A1 - Bauer, Monika A1 - Dreyer, Christian A1 - Schneider, Jürgen T1 - Recent Progress in Polymer Based Photonic Devices T2 - Proceedings, ECOC 2004, 30th European Conference on Optical Communication, September 5 - 9, 2004 in Stockholm, Sweden, Vol. 4 Y1 - 2004 SN - 91-975291-4-1 SP - 802 EP - 805 PB - Royal Institute of Technology, Kista Photonics Research Center CY - Kista ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Keil, Norbert A1 - Yao, Huihai A1 - Zawadzki, Crispin A1 - Beyer, F. A1 - Radmer, O. A1 - Bauer, Monika A1 - Dreyer, Christian A1 - Schneider, Jürgen T1 - Monolithically Integrated Polymer-Based Reconfigurable Optical Add-Drop Multiplexer (ROADM) Y1 - 2004 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Dreyer, Christian A1 - Schneider, Jürgen A1 - Bauer, Monika A1 - Keil, Norbert A1 - Zawadzki, Crispin A1 - Yao, Huihai A1 - Radmer, O. T1 - New Triazine Containing Fluoropolymers and Applications Y1 - 2004 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Bauer, Monika A1 - Dreyer, Christian A1 - Kahle, Olaf A1 - Schuldt, U. A1 - Uhlig, C. A1 - Schulze, K. A1 - Schulz, Stefan E. A1 - Uhlig, M. A1 - Geßner, Thomas T1 - Comparison of Fluorinated and Non-Fluorinated Novel Low-k Polycyanurates for Integrated Circuit (IC) Metallization Y1 - 2006 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Dreyer, Christian A1 - Schneider, Jürgen A1 - Bauer, Monika T1 - Adjustment of the Birefringence of High-Performance Polymers for Optical Applications Y1 - 2004 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Suresh, S. A1 - Dreyer, Christian A1 - Bauer, Monika A1 - Topping, C. A1 - Smith, D. W. T1 - Novel Hybrid-Monomers Containingthe Trifluorovinyloxy-Group and the Cyanato-Group Y1 - 2006 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Sommer, C. A1 - Dreyer, Christian T1 - Polymerentwicklung im TPO Mechatronic Y1 - 2001 ER -