Nanocellulose for sustainable water purification

R Das, T Lindstrom, PR Sharma, K Chi… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nanocelluloses (NC) are nature-based sustainable biomaterials, which not only possess
cellulosic properties but also have the important hallmarks of nanomaterials, such as large …

The colloidal properties of nanocellulose

T Benselfelt, N Kummer, M Nordenström… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Nanocelluloses are anisotropic nanoparticles of semicrystalline assemblies of glucan
polymers. They have great potential as renewable building blocks in the materials platform …

[HTML][HTML] The physics of active polymers and filaments

RG Winkler, G Gompper - The journal of chemical physics, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Active matter agents consume internal energy or extract energy from the environment for
locomotion and force generation. Already, rather generic models, such as ensembles of …

Viscoelasticity of concentrated isotropic solutions of semiflexible polymers. 2. Linear response

DC Morse - Macromolecules, 1998 - ACS Publications
Linear rheological properties of tightly-entangled isotropic solutions of semi-flexible
polymers are calculated using a tube model, and qualitative predictions are given for the …

Complexes of oppositely charged polyelectrolytes and surfactants–recent developments in the field of biologically derived polyelectrolytes

L Chiappisi, I Hoffmann, M Gradzielski - Soft Matter, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
We review the work done on complexes between biopolyelectrolytes such as ionically
modified cellulose or chitosan and oppositely charged surfactants. Around equimolarity of …

Gelation, phase behavior, and dynamics of β-lactoglobulin amyloid fibrils at varying concentrations and ionic strengths

S Bolisetty, L Harnau, J Jung, R Mezzenga - Biomacromolecules, 2012 - ACS Publications
We have investigated the thermodynamic and dynamic behavior of multistranded β-
lactoglobulin protein fibrils in water, by combining static, dynamic, and depolarized dynamic …

Conformational and rheological properties of semiflexible polymers in shear flow

RG Winkler - The Journal of chemical physics, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
A theoretical description is provided for the nonequilibrium conformational and dynamical
properties of a polymer in shear flow. Using a mean-field semiflexible chain model, which …

Self-aggregation of mixtures of oppositely charged polyelectrolytes and surfactants studied by rheology, dynamic light scattering and small-angle neutron scattering

I Hoffmann, P Heunemann, S Prevost, R Schweins… - Langmuir, 2011 - ACS Publications
In this study, the phase behavior, structure and properties of systems composed of the
cationic, cellulose-based polycation JR 400 and the anionic surfactants sodium …

Disentangling entanglements in biopolymer solutions

P Lang, E Frey - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
Reptation theory has been highly successful in explaining the unusual material properties of
entangled polymer solutions. It reduces the complex many-body dynamics to a single …

Local and global deformations in a strain-stiffening fibrin gel

Q Wen, A Basu, JP Winer, A Yodh… - New Journal of …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
Extracellular matrices composed of filamentous biopolymers like collagen and fibrin have
viscoelastic properties that differ from those of rubberlike elastomers or hydrogels formed by …