Overview of bacterial cellulose composites: a multipurpose advanced material

N Shah, M Ul-Islam, WA Khattak, JK Park - Carbohydrate polymers, 2013 - Elsevier
Bacterial cellulose (BC) has received substantial interest owing to its unique structural
features and impressive physico-mechanical properties. BC has a variety of applications in …

Enhancement of the fermentation process and properties of bacterial cellulose: a review

C Campano, A Balea, A Blanco, C Negro - Cellulose, 2016 - Springer
Cellulose produced by bacteria (BC) has attracted increasing interest in view of its superior
properties with respect to nanofibrillar structure, high purity and biocompatibility. Despite the …

Revisiting OPLS force field parameters for ionic liquid simulations

B Doherty, X Zhong, S Gathiaka, B Li… - Journal of chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Our OPLS-2009IL force field parameters (J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2009, 5, 1038–1050)
were originally developed and tested on 68 unique ionic liquids featuring the 1-alkyl-3 …

Sustainable bioplastics: Recent progress in the production of bio-building blocks for the bio-based next-generation polymer PEF

KR Hwang, W Jeon, SY Lee, MS Kim… - Chemical engineering …, 2020 - Elsevier
Today, bioplastics are recognised as sustainable alternatives and one of the solutions to the
crisis of petro-based plastics. The next-generation polymer poly (ethylene 2, 5 …

Ionic liquids—promising but challenging solvents for homogeneous derivatization of cellulose

M Gericke, P Fardim, T Heinze - Molecules, 2012 - mdpi.com
In the past decade, ionic liquids (ILs) have received enormous interest as solvents for
cellulose. They have been studied intensively for fractionation and biorefining of …

Use of ionic liquids in protein and DNA chemistry

SK Shukla, JP Mikkola - Frontiers in Chemistry, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Ionic liquids (ILs) have been receiving much attention as solvents in various areas of
biochemistry because of their various beneficial properties over the volatile solvents and ILs …

[HTML][HTML] Advanced biotechnological applications of bacterial nanocellulose-based biopolymer nanohybrids: A review

MW Ullah, KF Alabbosh, A Fatima, SU Islam… - Advanced Industrial and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Bacterial nanocellulose (BNC), as a natural polymer, produced in vivo by bacteria and in
vitro by the cell-free enzymes system, is comprised of nano-sized fibers. The pristine BNC …

Room temperature ionic liquids meet biomolecules: a microscopic view of structure and dynamics

A Benedetto, P Ballone - ACS Sustainable Chemistry & …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) and biomolecules are both paradigmatic classes of
organic molecules, each consisting of a prodigious number of distinct chemical species …

The solution state and dissolution process of cellulose in ionic-liquid-based solvents with different hydrogen-bonding basicity and microstructures

Y Zhou, X Zhang, D Yin, J Zhang, Q Mi, H Lu… - Green …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The cellulose solution state and formation mechanism are fundamental and essential issues
in cellulose science and related industry. Herein, we revealed the cellulose solution state …

Efficient preparation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural from cellulose in a biphasic system over hafnyl phosphates

Z Cao, Z Fan, Y Chen, M Li, T Shen, C Zhu… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2019 - Elsevier
A series of hafnyl phosphates HfO (PO 4) x (x= 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0) were prepared by
coprecipitation of HfCl 4 with KH 2 PO 4, which were explored for efficient production of HMF …