Understanding nanocellulose–water interactions: Turning a detriment into an asset

L Solhi, V Guccini, K Heise, I Solala… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Modern technology has enabled the isolation of nanocellulose from plant-based fibers, and
the current trend focuses on utilizing nanocellulose in a broad range of sustainable …

Cellulose and the role of hydrogen bonds: not in charge of everything

M Wohlert, T Benselfelt, L Wågberg, I Furó… - Cellulose, 2022 - Springer
In the cellulose scientific community, hydrogen bonding is often used as the explanation for
a large variety of phenomena and properties related to cellulose and cellulose based …

Building an extensible cell wall

DJ Cosgrove - Plant Physiology, 2022 - academic.oup.com
This article recounts, from my perspective of four decades in this field, evolving paradigms of
primary cell wall structure and the mechanism of surface enlargement of growing cell walls …

[HTML][HTML] Fungal cellulases

CM Payne, BC Knott, HB Mayes, H Hansson… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Lignocellulosic biomass has enormous potential to contribute to worldwide energy,
chemical, and material demands in a renewable, sustainable manner. In the United States …

[HTML][HTML] Cellulose-hemicellulose interactions-a nanoscale view

A Khodayari, W Thielemans, U Hirn… - Carbohydrate …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this work, we study interactions of five different hemicellulose models, ie
Galactoglucomannan, O-Acetyl-Galactoglucomannan, Fuco-Galacto-Xyloglucan, 4-O …

Strengthening and Toughening Hierarchical Nanocellulose via Humidity-Mediated Interface

YZ Hou, QF Guan, J **a, ZC Ling, ZZ He, ZM Han… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Undoubtedly humidity is a non-negligible and sensitive problem for cellulose, which is
usually regarded as one disadvantage to cellulose-based materials because of the …

Predicting the structures of glycans, glycoproteins, and their complexes

RJ Woods - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Complex carbohydrates are ubiquitous in nature, and together with proteins and nucleic
acids they comprise the building blocks of life. But unlike proteins and nucleic acids …

Structure of cellulose microfibrils in primary cell walls from collenchyma

LH Thomas, VT Forsyth, A Šturcová… - Plant …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
In the primary walls of growing plant cells, the glucose polymer cellulose is assembled into
long microfibrils a few nanometers in diameter. The rigidity and orientation of these …

Advances in multiscale modeling of lignocellulosic biomass

PN Ciesielski, MB Pecha, AM Lattanzi… - ACS Sustainable …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Applications and associated processing technologies of lignocellulosic biomass are
becoming increasingly important as we endeavor to meet societal demand for fuels …

MFiX based multi-scale CFD simulations of biomass fast pyrolysis: A review

L Lu, X Gao, JF Dietiker, M Shahnam… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Multi-scale computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation bridges the gaps between
particle and reactor scales in the modeling of biomass pyrolysis. Its accuracy depends on …