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 …

Surface and interface engineering for nanocellulosic advanced materials

X Yang, SK Biswas, J Han, S Tanpichai… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
How do trees support their upright massive bodies? The support comes from the incredibly
strong and stiff, and highly crystalline nanoscale fibrils of extended cellulose chains, called …

[HTML][HTML] The strength and stiffness of oriented wood and cellulose-fibre materials: A review

M Jakob, AR Mahendran, W Gindl-Altmutter… - Progress in Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
In recent times, a clear trend towards the use of biobased materials can be seen in many
areas. Apart from beneficial ecological properties, high strength and stiffness at low weight …

Surface modifications of nanocellulose: From synthesis to high-performance nanocomposites

M Ghasemlou, F Daver, EP Ivanova, Y Habibi… - Progress in Polymer …, 2021 - Elsevier
Nanocellulose is at the cutting edge of current research owing to its highly useful features,
such as abundance and renewability of its source, biocompatibility, nanoscale dimension …

Biopolymer aerogels and foams: Chemistry, properties, and applications

S Zhao, WJ Malfait… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Biopolymer aerogels were among the first aerogels produced, but only in the last decade
has research on biopolymer and biopolymer–composite aerogels become popular …

Alignment of cellulose nanofibers: harnessing nanoscale properties to macroscale benefits

K Li, CM Clarkson, L Wang, Y Liu, M Lamm, Z Pang… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
In nature, cellulose nanofibers form hierarchical structures across multiple length scales to
achieve high-performance properties and different functionalities. Cellulose nanofibers …

Wood‐based nanotechnologies toward sustainability

F Jiang, T Li, Y Li, Y Zhang, A Gong, J Dai… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
With over 30% global land coverage, the forest is one of nature's most generous gifts to
human beings, providing shelters and materials for all living beings. Apart from being …

Cellulose nanocrystals: synthesis, functional properties, and applications

J George, SN Sabapathi - Nanotechnology, science and …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Cellulose nanocrystals are unique nanomaterials derived from the most abundant and
almost inexhaustible natural polymer, cellulose. These nanomaterials have received …

Benchmarking cellulose nanocrystals: from the laboratory to industrial production

MS Reid, M Villalobos, ED Cranston - Langmuir, 2017 - ACS Publications
The renewability, biocompatibility, and mechanical properties of cellulose nanocrystals
(CNCs) have made them an attractive material for numerous composite, biomedical, and …

Flexible and responsive chiral nematic cellulose nanocrystal/poly (ethylene glycol) composite films with uniform and tunable structural color

K Yao, Q Meng, V Bulone, Q Zhou - Advanced materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The fabrication of responsive photonic structures from cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) that
can operate in the entire visible spectrum is challenging due to the requirements of precise …