The complex structure of wood, one of the most abundant biomaterials on Earth, has been
optimized over 270 million years of tree evolution. This optimization has led to the highly …

Microfibril angle (MFA) is perhaps the easiest ultrastructural variable to measure for wood
cell walls, and certainly the only such variable that has been measured on a large scale …

Comprehensive in scope, Food Polysaccharides and Their Applications, Second Edition
explains the production aspects and the chemical and physical properties of the main …

Wood presents a hierarchical structure, containing features at all length scales: from the
tracheids or vessels that make up its cellular structure, through to the microfibrils within the …

Cellulose is the world's most abundant naturally occurring organic substance, rivaled only
by chitin. It has been estimated that nature synthesizes from 100 to 1000 billion (1011 to …

Variation in microfibril angle (MFA)(degrees) among loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) full-sib
families and clones was investigated using 43 clones from nine full-sib crosses tested at two …

The micro-fibril angle of specimens of Pinus radiata was measured by preparing a
microsection of 1000 wood cell walls and irradiating with an X-ray beam from a synchrotron …

Investigations of the crystallograpically organized regions of mature and juvenile Scots pine
wood were performed. Experimental methods of X-ray diffraction were applied. Incomplete …

Microfibril angle,(MFA) in hardwood is one of the key determinants of solid timber
performance due to its strong influence on the stiffness, strength, shrinkage, swelling …

The spiral angle of the elementary cellulose fibril in the wood cell wall, often called
microfibril angle,(MFA). Microfibril angle in hardwood is one of the key determinants of solid …