Understanding nanocellulose–water interactions: Turning a detriment into an asset

L Solhi, V Guccini, K Heise, I Solala… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Modern technology has enabled the isolation of nanocellulose from plant-based fibers, and
the current trend focuses on utilizing nanocellulose in a broad range of sustainable …

Nanocellulose: recent fundamental advances and emerging biological and biomimicking applications

K Heise, E Kontturi, Y Allahverdiyeva… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In the effort toward sustainable advanced functional materials, nanocelluloses have
attracted extensive recent attention. Nanocelluloses range from rod‐like highly crystalline …

Recent progress in production methods for cellulose nanocrystals: leading to more sustainable processes

Y Tang, H Yang, S Vignolini - Advanced Sustainable Systems, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) are a new class of biodegradable nanomaterial derived from
the most abundant and renewable biomass on the planet: cellulose. Due to their potential as …

Degradation and crystallization of cellulose in hydrogen chloride vapor for high‐yield isolation of cellulose nanocrystals

E Kontturi, A Meriluoto, PA Penttilä… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the structural, load‐bearing role of cellulose in the plant kingdom, countless efforts
have been devoted to degrading this recalcitrant polysaccharide, particularly in the context …

[PDF][PDF] Contact angles and wettability of cellulosic surfaces: a review of proposed mechanisms and test strategies.

MA Hubbe, DJ Gardner, W Shen - BioResources, 2015 - bioresources.cnr.ncsu.edu
Contact angle methods are widely used to evaluate the wettability of cellulose-based
surfaces and to judge their suitability for different applications. Wettability affects ink …

Effect of sample moisture content on XRD-estimated cellulose crystallinity index and crystallite size

UP Agarwal, SA Ralph, C Baez, RS Reiner, SP Verrill - Cellulose, 2017 - Springer
Although X-ray diffraction (XRD) has been the most widely used technique to investigate
crystallinity index (CrI) and crystallite size (L 200) of cellulose materials, there are not many …

Assessing the complementarity of time domain NMR, solid-state NMR and dynamic vapor sorption in the characterization of polysaccharide-water interactions

X Falourd, C Rondeau-Mouro, M Cambert… - Carbohydrate …, 2024 - Elsevier
Characterizing the hygroscopic behavior of macromolecular assemblies is crucial for
understanding biological processes as well as to develop tailor-made polysaccharides …

Tailorable cellulose II nanocrystals (CNC II) prepared in mildly acidic lithium bromide trihydrate (MALBTH)

N Li, H Bian, JY Zhu, PN Ciesielski, X Pan - Green Chemistry, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Preparing cellulose II nanocrystals (CNC II) requires a polymorph transformation of natural
cellulose I feedstocks. The transformation is usually achieved via a process such as …

Water vapor uptake of ultrathin films of biologically derived nanocrystals: quantitative assessment with quartz crystal microbalance and spectroscopic ellipsometry

E Niinivaara, M Faustini, T Tammelin, E Kontturi - Langmuir, 2015 - ACS Publications
Despite the relevance of water interactions, explicit analysis of vapor adsorption on
biologically derived surfaces is often difficult. Here, a system was introduced to study the …

Impact of hemicelluloses and crystal size on X-ray scattering from atomistic models of cellulose microfibrils

A Zitting, A Paajanen, PA Penttilä - Cellulose, 2023 - Springer
X-ray scattering methods allow efficient characterization of cellulosic materials, but
interpreting their results is challenging. By creating molecular dynamics models of cellulose …