Emerging engineered wood for building applications

Y Ding, Z Pang, K Lan, Y Yao, G Panzarasa… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The building sector, including building operations and materials, was responsible for the
emission of∼ 11.9 gigatons of global energy-related CO2 in 2020, accounting for 37% of the …

[HTML][HTML] Hardened wood as a renewable alternative to steel and plastic

B Chen, UH Leiste, WL Fourney, Y Liu, Q Chen, T Li - Matter, 2021 - cell.com
Hard materials are in high demand in engineering applications. Widely used hard materials,
eg, alloys and ceramics, are often nonrenewable and expensive. Their production requires …

Weakening fibril–fibril interactions via an on-demand regulation of hemicellulose phase towards the facile disassembly of lignocellulose heterostructure into …

Y Jiang, X Wang, Z Meng, M Zhang, S Wang, X Liu - Green Chemistry, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
It is of great technical interest but still challenging to develop a cost-effective and eco-friendly
method to extract high-aspect-ratio elementary nanofibrils with native-state microstructure …

Additive Manufacturing with Cellulose‐Based Composites: Materials, Modeling, and Applications

S De, SJ Rukmani, X Zhao, C Clarkson… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Recent advances in large‐scale additive manufacturing (AM) with polymer‐based
composites have enabled efficient production of high‐performance materials. Cellulose …

Toughening by interfacial self-healing processes in bioinspired staggered heterostructures

L **e, K Wu, X Liang, Z Song, J Ding, J **… - International Journal of …, 2025 - Elsevier
Dynamic breaking and reforming of sacrificial bonds in sliding interfaces of biological and
bioinspired heterostructures could greatly enhance fracture resistance by providing a self …

Microstructure and dynamics of nanocellulose films: Insights into the deformational behavior

Z Li, Y Liao, Y Zhang, Y Zhang, W **a - Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2022 - Elsevier
Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) thin films draw considerable interest in engineering and
technological applications due to their excellent mechanical and physical properties …

Intrinsic kink deformation in nanocellulose

YZ Hou, ZZ He, YB Zhu, HA Wu - Carbohydrate Polymers, 2021 - Elsevier
Sharp bends can be widely observed in isolated cellulose nanofibrils (CNFs) after
mechanical treatment, referred to as kink dislocations that are previously found in wood cell …

Tuning topology towards stronger and tougher polymers inspired by semi-crystalline cellulose nanofibrils

X Zhang, S Zhu - Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2023 - Elsevier
A long-standing challenge in materials design is to overcome the conflict between strength
and toughness, which generally contradict each other. Natural cellulose-enabled advanced …

Flaw sensitivity of cellulose paper

Q Chen, B Chen, S **g, Y Liu, T Li - Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2022 - Elsevier
Cellulose is earth-abundant and has exceptional intrinsic mechanical properties. Cellulose-
based materials, however, exhibit a large variation in their mechanical properties (eg …

Tuning Secondary Bonding Forces for Accelerated Dispersion of Cellulose Nanofibers

S Guo, X Yuan, X Zhang, S Zhu - Macromolecules, 2024 - ACS Publications
Cellulose nanofibers are elementary building blocks of a wide variety of advanced functional
materials. Nevertheless, the strong interfacial secondary bonds between cellulose molecular …