Citation: Tao Li, Shao-yu Lv, Jiao Chen, Chun-mei Gao, Shao-fei Zhang, Ming-zhu Liu. Progress in Polymer-based Environment-responsive Fertilizers[J]. Acta Polymerica Sinica, ;2018, 2018(3): 336-348. doi: 10.11777/j.issn1000-3304.2017.17152 shu

Progress in Polymer-based Environment-responsive Fertilizers

State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000

Corresponding author: Shao-yu Lv, lshy@lzu.edu.cn Ming-zhu Liu, mzliu@lzu.edu.cn
Received Date: 7 June 2017
Revised Date: 28 June 2017

Mineral nutrients from environment are required for plants growing, but the natural nutrients from soil can not completely meet the need. Therefore, use of fertilizers is the simple, effective and fast method to increase the yield and to improve the quality of the grains. However, only a small amount of the fertilizers used can be effectively absorbed by crops, and most of them are lost by volatilizing into the atmosphere or leaching into the ground, which leads to a serious waste of the fertilizers with severe environmental pollution (e.g. acidic rain, soil salinization and greenhouse gas release etc.). To solve these problems, polymer-based slow-release fertilizers were developed by functional modification to control the release of the nutrients and to prolong the effective use of the fertilizer. However, the release behavior of these slow-release fertilizers is always influenced by some factors such as temperature, humidity, pH and salinization of soil in practical applications. To address this issue, intelligent fertilizer, i.e. fertilizer with functional controlled-release, has been developed to regulate the release of various nutrients in accordance with the change of soil environment and the different stages of plant growth. Especially, polymer-based environment-responsive fertilizer, as an intelligent fertilizer, can change water absorbency, water-holding capacity and nutrient release behavior, by intelligently regulating water and nutrients in soil according to specific stimulus response signals of soil environment, such as temperature, humidity, pH value and ion concentration. This review briefly introduces the development stages of the fertilizer and their classification. On the basis of different stimulation signals from the environment and actual application, these environment-responsive fertilizers are classified as temperature-responsive, pH-responsive and salt-sensitive fertilizers. Their preparations, properties, stimulus-responsive behaviors and application are introduced in detail. Intelligentialization of the fertilizer is an important tendency in agriculture and horticulture field, and the polymer-based environment-responsive fertilizer has great potential in fertilizer development and application. With the development of agricultural modernization and polymer science, it can be expected that the preparation and application of the natural polymer-based responsive fertilizer, the multiple-responsive fertilizer and the biologically responsive fertilizer will be research trends in the fertilizer fields.
- Polymer-based fertilizer,
- Functional materials,
- Intelligent fertilizer,
- Environment-responsive,
- Intelligent regulation
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