Cellulose: a review of water interactions, applications in composites, and water treatment

A Etale, AJ Onyianta, SR Turner, SJ Eichhorn - Chemical reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Cellulose is known to interact well with water, but is insoluble in it. Many polysaccharides
such as cellulose are known to have significant hydrogen bond networks joining the …

Nanocellulose for sustainable water purification

R Das, T Lindstrom, PR Sharma, K Chi… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nanocelluloses (NC) are nature-based sustainable biomaterials, which not only possess
cellulosic properties but also have the important hallmarks of nanomaterials, such as large …

Deconstruction and reassembly of renewable polymers and biocolloids into next generation structured materials

BL Tardy, BD Mattos, CG Otoni, M Beaumont… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
This review considers the most recent developments in supramolecular and supraparticle
structures obtained from natural, renewable biopolymers as well as their disassembly and …

Multi-functional nanocellulose based nanocomposites for biodegradable food packaging: hybridization, fabrication, key properties and application

Y Dong, Y Xie, X Ma, L Yan, HY Yu, M Yang… - Carbohydrate …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nowadays, non-degradable plastic packaging materials have caused serious environmental
pollution, posing a threat to human health and development. Renewable eco-friendly …

Functional materials from nanocellulose: utilizing structure–property relationships in bottom‐up fabrication

K De France, Z Zeng, T Wu, G Nyström - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
It is inherently challenging to recapitulate the precise hierarchical architectures found
throughout nature (such as in wood, antler, bone, and silk) using synthetic bottom‐up …

Bacterial Nanocellulose/MoS2 Hybrid Aerogels as Bifunctional Adsorbent/Photocatalyst Membranes for in-Flow Water Decontamination

EP Ferreira-Neto, S Ullah, TCA Da Silva… - … Applied Materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
To address the problems associated with the use of unsupported nanomaterials, in general,
and molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), in particular, we report the preparation of self-supported …

[HTML][HTML] Cellulose and its derivatives for lithium ion battery separators: A review on the processing methods and properties

E Lizundia, CM Costa, R Alves… - Carbohydrate Polymer …, 2020 - Elsevier
There is a growing demand for lithium ion batteries (LIBs) fabricated with environmentally-
friendly materials to transition toward a more sustainable society based on a circular …

Strategies of tuning catalysts for efficient photodegradation of antibiotics in water environments: a review

S Wu, Y Lin, YH Hu - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The photocatalytic degradation of antibiotics is a very promising technique to solve the
pollution issues of antibiotics in water. Furthermore, catalysts play a critical role in the …

Cellulose nanocrystal based multifunctional nanohybrids

E Lizundia, D Puglia, TD Nguyen… - Progress in Materials …, 2020 - Elsevier
Cellulose nanocrystals (CNC) based nanohybrids are emerging as multifunctional materials
and alternative to traditional petroleum-based plastics. The growth in academic and …

[HTML][HTML] Multicomponent magnetic nanoparticle engineering: the role of structure-property relationship in advanced applications

AG Díez, M Rincón-Iglesias, S Lanceros-Méndez… - Materials Today …, 2022 - Elsevier
Combining magnetic nanomaterials with materials of other classes can produce
multicomponent nanoparticles with an entire ensemble of new structures and unique …