Comparison and assessment of methods for cellulose crystallinity determination

KS Salem, NK Kasera, MA Rahman… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The degree of crystallinity in cellulose significantly affects the physical, mechanical, and
chemical properties of cellulosic materials, their processing, and their final application …

Biobased nanomaterials─ the role of interfacial interactions for advanced materials

M Osterberg, KA Henn, M Farooq… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
This review presents recent advances regarding biomass-based nanomaterials, focusing on
their surface interactions. Plant biomass-based nanoparticles, like nanocellulose and lignin …

Lignocellulosic biomass: understanding recalcitrance and predicting hydrolysis

A Zoghlami, G Paës - Frontiers in chemistry, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Lignocellulosic biomass (LB) is an abundant and renewable resource from plants mainly
composed of polysaccharides (cellulose and hemicelluloses) and an aromatic polymer …

Effects of ball milling on the structure of cotton cellulose

Z Ling, T Wang, M Makarem, M Santiago Cintrón… - Cellulose, 2019 - Springer
Cellulose is often described as a mixture of crystalline and amorphous material. A large part
of the general understanding of the chemical, biochemical and physical properties of …

Probing cellulose structures with vibrational spectroscopy

M Makarem, CM Lee, K Kafle, S Huang, I Chae… - Cellulose, 2019 - Springer
This paper reviews principles, data interpretations, and applications of vibrational
spectroscopic methods used for analysis of cellulose in the isolated state and in plant cell …

Structure and dynamics of interfacial peptides and proteins from vibrational sum-frequency generation spectroscopy

S Hosseinpour, SJ Roeters, M Bonn, W Peukert… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Proteins at interfaces play important roles in cell biology, immunology, bioengineering, and
biomimetic material design. Many biological processes are based on interfacial protein …

[HTML][HTML] Recent progress in selected bio-nanomaterials and their engineering applications: An overview

RK Mishra, SK Ha, K Verma, SK Tiwari - Journal of Science: Advanced …, 2018 - Elsevier
Nowadays, the rapid climate change, water pollution and harmful gas emissions are largely
caused by the extensive use of petrochemicals and the burning of plastic materials. The …

Visualizing chemical functionality in plant cell walls

Y Zeng, ME Himmel, SY Ding - Biotechnology for biofuels, 2017 - Springer
Understanding plant cell wall cross-linking chemistry and polymeric architecture is key to the
efficient utilization of biomass in all prospects from rational genetic modification to …

Hydrogen-bonding network and OH stretch vibration of cellulose: comparison of computational modeling with polarized IR and SFG spectra

CM Lee, JD Kubicki, B Fan, L Zhong… - The Journal of …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Hydrogen bonds play critical roles in noncovalent directional interactions determining the
crystal structure of cellulose. Although diffraction studies accurately determined the …

Characterization of crystalline cellulose in biomass: Basic principles, applications, and limitations of XRD, NMR, IR, Raman, and SFG

SH Kim, CM Lee, K Kafle - Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, 2013 - Springer
Cellulose is among the most important and abundant biopolymers in biosphere. It is the
main structural component of a vast number of plants that carries vital functions for plant …