Comparison and assessment of methods for cellulose crystallinity determination

KS Salem, NK Kasera, MA Rahman… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The degree of crystallinity in cellulose significantly affects the physical, mechanical, and
chemical properties of cellulosic materials, their processing, and their final application …

Probing cellulose structures with vibrational spectroscopy

M Makarem, CM Lee, K Kafle, S Huang, I Chae… - Cellulose, 2019 - Springer
This paper reviews principles, data interpretations, and applications of vibrational
spectroscopic methods used for analysis of cellulose in the isolated state and in plant cell …

Mutations in the pectin methyltransferase QUASIMODO2 influence cellulose biosynthesis and wall integrity in Arabidopsis

J Du, A Kirui, S Huang, L Wang, WJ Barnes… - Plant Cell, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Pectins are abundant in the cell walls of dicotyledonous plants, but how they interact with
other wall polymers and influence wall integrity and cell growth has remained mysterious …

Review on electromechanical coupling properties of biomaterials

I Chae, CK Jeong, Z Ounaies… - ACS Applied Bio Materials, 2018 - ACS Publications
Electromechanical coupling properties of biological materials, especially cellulose from
plant cell walls and proteins from animals, are of great interest for applications in …

Numerical simulation of vibrational sum frequency generation intensity for non-centrosymmetric domains interspersed in an amorphous matrix: a case study for …

J Choi, J Lee, M Makarem, S Huang… - The Journal of Physical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Vibrational sum frequency generation (SFG) spectroscopy can specifically probe molecular
species non-centrosymmetrically arranged in a centrosymmetric or isotropic medium. This …

DFT-Based Calculation of Molecular Hyperpolarizability and SFG Intensity of Symmetric and Asymmetric Stretch Modes of Alkyl Groups

J Choi, AL Kwansa, YG Yingling… - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Vibrational sum frequency generation (SFG) spectroscopy has been extensively used for
obtaining structural information of molecular functional groups at two-dimensional (2D) …

Regiospecific Cellulose Orientation and Anisotropic Mechanical Property in Plant Cell Walls

J Lee, J Choi, L Feng, J Yu, Y Zheng, Q Zhang… - …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Cellulose microfibrils (CMFs) are a major load-bearing component in plant cell walls. Thus,
their structures have been studied extensively with spectroscopic and microscopic …

Vibrational sum-frequency generation hyperspectral microscopy for molecular self-assembled systems

H Wang, W Xiong - Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 2021 - annualreviews.org
In this review, we discuss the recent developments and applications of vibrational sum-
frequency generation (VSFG) microscopy. This hyperspectral imaging technique can resolve …

Sum frequency generation (SFG) microscopy analysis of cellulose microfibrils in Physcomitrium patens gametophore leaf

J Lee, AM Chaves, J Choi, AW Roberts, SH Kim - Cellulose, 2023 - Springer
Physcomitrium patens is a good model system to study the structure and function
relationships of cellulose synthase (CESA) proteins since the life cycle of moss is short and …

Dehydration-induced physical strains of cellulose microfibrils in plant cell walls

S Huang, M Makarem, SN Kiemle, Y Zheng, X He… - Carbohydrate …, 2018 - Elsevier
The effect of dehydration of plant cell walls on the physical status of cellulose microfibrils
(CMFs) interspersed in pectin matrices was studied. Vibrational sum frequency generation …