A review on alternative raw materials for sustainable production: novel plant fibers

Y Seki, F Selli, ÜH Erdoğan, M Atagür… - Cellulose, 2022 - Springer
With ever increasing environmental awareness, renewable raw materials for textile and
composite industry have become an important alternative to reduce the use of petroleum …

Overcoming challenges in lignocellulosic biomass pretreatment for second-generation (2G) sugar production: emerging role of nano, biotechnological and promising …

FAF Antunes, AK Chandel, R Terán-Hilares, AP Ingle… - 3 Biotech, 2019 - Springer
Production of green chemicals and biofuels in biorefineries is the potential alternative for
petrochemicals and gasoline in transitioning of petro-economy into bioeconomy. However …

Characterization studies of biopolymeric matrix and cellulose fibres based composites related to functionalized fibre-matrix interface

AMN Azammi, RA Ilyas, SM Sapuan, R Ibrahim… - Interfaces in particle and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Interfacial bonding between cellulosic fibres and biopolymeric matrices is always an issue
when it comes to blending with a different medium in composites. For example, the blending …

The crystallinity of nanocellulose: dispersion-induced disordering of the grain boundary in biologically structured cellulose

K Daicho, T Saito, S Fujisawa… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2018 - ACS Publications
In trees, a-few-nanometers-wide crystalline fibrils of cellulose are tightly bundled with other
biopolymers, such as lignin and hemicelluloses, to form robust cell walls. Cellulose …

Thermal characterization of cellulose nanocrystals isolated from sisal fibers using acid hydrolysis

M Mariano, R Cercená, V Soldi - Industrial Crops and Products, 2016 - Elsevier
Besides interesting properties and potential applications, cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs)
present some limitations which remain a challenge in many application fields. These …

Weighing the factors behind enzymatic hydrolyzability of pretreated lignocellulose

V Pihlajaniemi, MH Sipponen, H Liimatainen… - Green …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The major factors determining enzymatic hydrolyzability of pretreated wheat straw were
analyzed and their relative importance quantified. The effects of NaOH-delignification …

Cost-effective preparation of highly amorphous cellulose nanofibrils with TEMPO oxidation promoted by mild molten salt hydrate pretreatment

W Deng, Y Zhang, M Wu, C Liu, G Yu, B Li… - Industrial Crops and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract 2, 2, 6, 6-tetramethylpiperidine-1-oxyl (TEMPO)/NaBr/NaClO catalytic oxidation
system is a commonly used method to prepare carboxylated cellulose nanofibrils (TOCNF) …

Probing crystallinity of never-dried wood cellulose with Raman spectroscopy

UP Agarwal, SA Ralph, RS Reiner, C Baez - Cellulose, 2016 - Springer
The structure of wood cell wall cellulose in its native state remains poorly understood,
limiting the progress of research and development in numerous areas, including plant …

[HTML][HTML] Increase in ethanol production from sugarcane bagasse based on combined pretreatments and fed-batch enzymatic hydrolysis

MC de Albuquerque Wanderley, C Martín… - Bioresource …, 2013 - Elsevier
Enzymatic hydrolysis of pretreated sugarcane bagasse was performed to investigate the
production of ethanol. The sugarcane bagasse was pretreated in a process combining …

A study of the production of cellulose nanocrystals through subcritical water hydrolysis

LP Novo, J Bras, A Garcia, N Belgacem… - Industrial Crops and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Cellulose nanocrystals (CNC) have a wide range of potential applications. For classical
CNC production, amorphous cellulose is hydrolyzed using concentrated sulfuric acid; …