Transforming Wheat Straw into Superabsorbent Polymers for Sustainable Agricultural Management
Andrey V Sorokin, Aidar I Kadyirov, Igor A Saranov, Egor M Tsimmer, Vladislav A Kiselev, Ivan A Zhuravlev, Maria S Lavlinskaya, Raffaella Aversa · 2025
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Andrey Sorokin and co-authors turn wheat straw into water-holding polymers for farm use in this 2025 paper. Straw piles up as farm waste and is often burned, which harms air quality. The team treats the straw and blends it into gels that soak up many times their weight in water.
Straw was broken down with acid or alkali, then treated to make it more water-loving. Those treated parts were built into the gels at two mix levels. The alkali-route gels swelled the most and held their shape well under testing. In sand columns, the best gel kept over half of a test fertilizer dose from washing away. The authors link each processing step to the final gel's strength and uptake.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Andrey V Sorokin, Aidar I Kadyirov, Igor A Saranov, Egor M Tsimmer, Vladislav A Kiselev, Ivan A Zhuravlev, Maria S Lavlinskaya, Raffaella Aversa |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 55 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |