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Polymer Composite-Integrated Food Waste Management Across the Supply Chain: Quantification, Process Modelling, and Techno-Economic Valorization
Abstract: Food waste produced throughout the global food supply chain constitutes one of the most impactful forms of inefficiency within the current food production system, producing roughly 931 million tons per year and resulting in economic losses above $1 trillion worldwide each year. One aspect that has not been sufficiently studied systematically is how polymer composite materials, such as membrane separation systems, polymer-coated extraction equipment, fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) biorefinery infrastructure, and …
Published in Journal of Polymer & Composites · Vol. 14, Issue 2, 2026 · pp. 819–836 Read article
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Strategic Integration of Machine Learning in Polymer Composite Development: A Framework for R&D Portfolio Management and Technological Adoption
Abstract: The progress of advanced polymer composites is slow, costly and unpredictable due to traditional methods of trial-and-error research. As materials informatics and data-driven modeling speed up the process of discovering technology, there exists a huge disconnect between computational predictions on one hand and strategic decision-making on the other in research and development (R&D). To solve this issue, this paper presents the Agile Materials-Intelligence (AMI) Framework, a systematic combined methodology that …
Published in Journal of Polymer & Composites · Vol. 14, Issue 1, 2026 · pp. 1272–2286 Read article