Cellulose: a review of water interactions, applications in composites, and water treatment

A Etale, AJ Onyianta, SR Turner, SJ Eichhorn - Chemical reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Cellulose is known to interact well with water, but is insoluble in it. Many polysaccharides
such as cellulose are known to have significant hydrogen bond networks joining the …

Nanocellulose: recent fundamental advances and emerging biological and biomimicking applications

K Heise, E Kontturi, Y Allahverdiyeva… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In the effort toward sustainable advanced functional materials, nanocelluloses have
attracted extensive recent attention. Nanocelluloses range from rod‐like highly crystalline …

Recent progress on chemical modification of cellulose nanocrystal (CNC) and its application in nanocomposite films and membranes-A comprehensive review

C Gomri, M Cretin, M Semsarilar - Carbohydrate Polymers, 2022 - Elsevier
Cellulose nanocrystal (CNC) has recently gained much attention due to its unique properties
such as abundancy, biodegradability, high strength, large surface area, functional ability …

Grafting Polymers from Cellulose Nanocrystals: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications

S Wohlhauser, G Delepierre, M Labet, G Morandi… - …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Over the past 10 years, the grafting of polymers from the surface of cellulose nanocrystals
(CNCs) has gained substantial interest in both academia and industry due to the rapidly …

Redispersion of dried plant nanocellulose: A review

Y Xu, Y Xu, H Chen, M Gao, X Yue, Y Ni - Carbohydrate Polymers, 2022 - Elsevier
Nanocellulose has undergone substantial development as a high value-added cellulose
product with broad applications. Dried products are advantageous to decrease …

Surface modified cellulose nanomaterials: a source of non-spherical nanoparticles for drug delivery

YY Khine, MH Stenzel - Materials Horizons, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Cellulose nanomaterials, often called nanocellulose, have created a lot of buzz as a
renewable building block for new materials such as nanocomposites, aerogels and …

Naturally derived Janus cellulose nanomaterials: anisotropic cellulose nanomaterial building blocks and their assembly into asymmetric structures

Q Wang, R Zhou, J Sun, J Liu, Q Zhu - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
Naturally derived cellulose nanomaterials (CNMs) with desirable physicochemical
properties have drawn tremendous attention for their versatile applications in a broad range …

Chemical modification of reducing end‐groups in cellulose nanocrystals

K Heise, G Delepierre, AWT King… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Native plant cellulose has an intrinsic supramolecular structure. Consequently, it can be
isolated as nanocellulose species, which can be utilized as building blocks for renewable …

Amphiphilic cellulose nanocrystals for enhanced Pickering emulsion stabilization

C Tang, S Spinney, Z Shi, J Tang, B Peng, J Luo… - Langmuir, 2018 - ACS Publications
Sulfated cellulose nanocrystals (CNC) with high surface charge density are inadequate for
stabilizing oil–water emulsions, which limits their applications as interfacial stabilizers. We …

Recent advances and an industrial perspective of cellulose nanocrystal functionalization through polymer grafting

SA Kedzior, JO Zoppe, RM Berry… - Current Opinion in Solid …, 2019 - Elsevier
Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) are an emerging nanomaterial for applications ranging from
coatings and construction to adhesives and biomedical devices. Owing to their high aspect …