The progress of bio-based fluorescent smart materials and their multifunctional applications
have attained increasing interest in the recent decades. Cellulose is among the cheapest …

Cellulose nanomaterials, often called nanocellulose, have created a lot of buzz as a
renewable building block for new materials such as nanocomposites, aerogels and …

Alginate and nanocellulose are potential biomaterials to be employed as bioinks for three-
dimensional (3D) printing. Alginate-cellulose nanofibers (A-CNF) formulations with CNF …

The growing demand for opto-electronic devices within an automated landscape has
opened up new opportunities for harnessing sustainable cellulose materials for sensors …

In order to minimize the pollution caused by the reuse of textile dyes, technologies and
materials have been developed that purify waste water in an efficient and cost-effective …

Sustained-release carriers with intrinsic luminescence exhibit the potential to combine
imaging with bioactive agent delivery in practice. This study reports the synthesis and …

This work concerns freeze-dry processing of CNF aerogels, including aluminum hydroxide
trihidrate (Alolt) particles and Sodium silicate, as active and passive flame retardants …

The ability to determine the physicochemical properties of nanoparticles, such as cellulose
nanocrystals, in suspension is critically important to maximize their potential. Currently …

Biofluorescence in living entities is a functional process associated with information
conveyance; whereas the capacity to respond to internal physiological signals is a unique …

Conspectus Our natural environment inspires much of our innovation in all fields of research
and application. In particular, unique optical properties are observed in natural systems such …