Nanocellulose: Recent trends and applications in the food industry

AB Perumal, RB Nambiar, JA Moses… - Food …, 2022 - Elsevier
In the past few years, nanocellulose (NC) has gained wide attention due to its renewability,
biocompatibility, bioavailability, and different remarkable properties. Cellulose …

[HTML][HTML] Review of the recent developments in cellulose nanocomposite processing

K Oksman, Y Aitomäki, AP Mathew, G Siqueira… - Composites Part A …, 2016 - Elsevier
This review addresses the recent developments of the processing of cellulose
nanocomposites, focusing on the most used techniques, including solution casting, melt …

Preparation, properties and applications of nanocellulosic materials

S Mondal - Carbohydrate polymers, 2017 - Elsevier
Recently, nano materials derived from natural renewable resources have drawn much
attention in the nanotechnology research thrust. Lignocelluloses are composed of cellulosic …

Renewable polyurethanes from sustainable biological precursors

TA Phung Hai, M Tessman, N Neelakantan… - …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Due to the depletion of fossil fuels, higher oil prices, and greenhouse gas emissions, the
scientific community has been conducting an ongoing search for viable renewable …

Nanocellulose as a sustainable biomass material: structure, properties, present status and future prospects in biomedical applications

Y Xue, Z Mou, H Xiao - Nanoscale, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanocellulose, extracted from the most abundant biomass material cellulose, has proved to
be an environmentally friendly material with excellent mechanical performance owing to its …

Waste paper: An underutilized but promising source for nanocellulose mining

V Kumar, P Pathak, NK Bhardwaj - Waste management, 2020 - Elsevier
Nanocellulose has achieved an inimitable place and value in nano-materials research
sector. Promising and exclusive physical, chemical and biological properties of …

Lignin-based polyurethanes: Opportunities for bio-based foams, elastomers, coatings and adhesives

M Alinejad, C Henry, S Nikafshar, A Gondaliya… - Polymers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Polyurethane chemistry can yield diverse sets of polymeric materials exhibiting a wide range
of properties for various applications and market segments. Utilizing lignin as a polyol …

A review of the surface modification of cellulose and nanocellulose using aliphatic and aromatic mono-and di-isocyanates

H Abushammala, J Mao - Molecules, 2019 - mdpi.com
Nanocellulose has been subjected to a wide range of chemical modifications towards
increasing its potential in certain fields of interest. These modifications either modulated the …

Valorisation of technical lignin in rigid polyurethane foam: a critical evaluation on trends, guidelines and future perspectives

H Haridevan, DAC Evans, AJ Ragauskas, DJ Martin… - Green …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Lignin is one of the most abundant natural polymers. Produced as a by-product from the bio-
refinery industries, it remains largely underutilised in high-value industrial applications. The …

Flame retardancy of bio-based polyurethanes: opportunities and challenges

H Vahabi, H Rastin, E Movahedifar, K Antoun… - Polymers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Sustainable polymers are emerging fast and have received much more attention in recent
years compared to petro-sourced polymers. However, they inherently have low-quality …