Abstract
Recent trend towards bio-based economy poses great promise to renewable materials like biopolymers as an alternative to petroleum resources. Similarly, reinforcement of biopolymers with nanostructured materials is gaining additional attraction from the researchers in academia and industries, because of the exponential improvement in physical, mechanical, and thermal properties with smaller amounts of nanofillers incorporation. Furthermore, this incorporation can be combined with functionalization routes that may enable new fundamental differences in the properties, biodegradability, biocompatibility, and applications of bionanocomposites compared to pristine ones. This article is intended to review the recent research on bionanocomposites and then compile their most noticeable and novel applications in various industries.