For the past 15 years, there has been tremendous interest and technological development
concerning biocomposites. Plant fibres can be derived from a multitude of natural agro …

Vibrational spectroscopy provides non-destructively the molecular fingerprint of plant cells in
the native state. In combination with microscopy, the chemical composition can be followed …

Transparent wood samples were fabricated from an environmentally-friendly hydrogen
peroxide (H2O2) bleached basswood (Tilia) template using polymer impregnation. The …

Wood presents a hierarchical structure, containing features at all length scales: from the
tracheids or vessels that make up its cellular structure, through to the microfibrils within the …

This review critically examines the various ways in which the mechanical properties of wood
have been understood. Despite the immense global importance of wood in construction …

The properties of wood and wood-based materials are strongly dependent on the properties
of the fibres, that is, the cell wall properties. It is thus highly important to be able to …

The mechanical stability of the culms of monocotyledonous bamboos is highly attributed to
the proper embedding of the stiff fibre caps of the vascular bundles into the soft …

Cereal straw is an abundant byproduct of crop production. Despite little current use in
materials, the biologically optimized structure, which carries the weight of a structure up to …

The functional characteristics of plant cell walls depend on the composition of the cell wall
polymers, as well as on their highly ordered architecture at scales from a few nanometres to …

Nanoindentation is a well known tool for identification of mechanical properties at the
micrometer scale of materials. When applied to study wood cell walls the commonly used …