Advanced synthetic and biobased composite materials in sustainable applications: a comprehensive review

The environmental changing and the innovative production methods have made advanced composite materials essential for the modern societies. Due to their unique properties, such multimaterial systems have found use in a variety of contemporary contexts. In this work, the implementations of composite materials in automotive, aerospace, marine, sport, defense, structural, and building applications have been debated and explored systematically. Composite materials have been shown to be superior to traditional materials in a number of ways, such as their ability to reduce system weight, which leads to significant energy savings and enhanced performance in a number of different contexts. Also taken into account was the feasibility of mass-producing composite material systems meeting the needs of a variety of designs with varying degrees of complexity in order to allow for extensive leeway in the creation of new shapes, while keeping the number of individual parts to a minimum. Moreover, there is the option to pick and choose the components in order to tweak them until they have the desired properties and functionality. Thus, this work demonstrates the advantages of adopting composite materials in a variety of industries to improve designers’ and decision makers’ comprehension of the characteristic-performance scheme in the field of composite systems.