Structural color from cellulose nanocrystals or chitin nanocrystals: self-assembly, optics, and applications

B Frka-Petesic, TG Parton, C Honorato-Rios… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Widespread concerns over the impact of human activity on the environment have resulted in
a desire to replace artificial functional materials with naturally derived alternatives. As such …

Fundamental aspects of nanocellulose stabilized Pickering emulsions and foams

S Parajuli, EE Ureña-Benavides - Advances in Colloid and Interface …, 2022 - Elsevier
Nanocelluloses in recent years have garnered a lot of attention for their use as stabilizers of
liquid-liquid and gas-liquid interfaces. Both cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) and cellulose …

Electrostatically complexed natural polysaccharides as aqueous barrier coatings for sustainable and recyclable fiber-based packaging

K Chi, J He, WS Lin, SMQ Bokhari… - ACS Applied Materials …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Driven by the ever-growing awareness of sustainability and circular economy, renewable,
biodegradable, and recyclable fiber-based packaging materials are emerging as …

Evaluation of surface free energy inducing interfacial adhesion of amphiphilic cellulose nanofibrils

K Ishida, T Kondo - Biomacromolecules, 2023 - ACS Publications
Cellulose nanofibrils (CNFs) have been studied extensively over the past decade. Their
applications, eg, as fillers for nanocomposites, stabilizers for Pickering emulsions, and …

Surface tension and viscosity dependence of slip length over irregularly structured superhydrophobic surfaces

L Zhang, YA Mehanna, CR Crick, RJ Poole - Langmuir, 2022 - ACS Publications
A comprehensive understanding of the slip phenomenon on liquid/solid interfaces is
essential for multiple real-world applications of superhydrophobic materials, especially …

Cellulose nanocrystals produced using recyclable sulfuric acid as hydrolysis media and their wetting molecular dynamics simulation

T Ma, X Hu, S Lu, R Cui, J Zhao, X Hu… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) were successfully produced with good nanoscales and
dispersibility, using a recycled sulfuric acid (H 2 SO 4) hydrolysis process. This method, at …

Nanocellulose and its interface: on the road to the design of emerging materials

P Bettotti, M Scarpa - Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Nanocellulose has several unique properties that render it a versatile material with possible
uses in a broad spectrum of applications. Nanocellulose is proved to form stable colloidal …

In‐situ addition of carboxylated cellulose nanocrystals in seeded semi‐batch emulsion polymerization

VA Gabriel, P Champagne… - … Canadian Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Nanocellulosic materials can be used as green materials for property modification in latex
polymers. In particular, cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) can be incorporated in latexes in‐situ …

Precise quantification of nanoparticle surface free energy via colloidal probe atomic force microscopy

P Ganjeh-Anzabi, H Jahandideh, SA Kedzior… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Interfacial interactions of nanoparticles (NPs) in colloids are greatly influenced by the NP
surface free energy (SFE). Due to the intrinsic physical and chemical heterogeneity of the …

[HTML][HTML] “Greener” chemical modification of cellulose nanocrystals via oxa-Michael addition with N-Benzylmaleimide

MJ Hasan, AE Johnson… - Current Research in Green …, 2021 - Elsevier
Surface modification of cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) was conducted by an oxa-Michael
addition of primary hydroxyl groups on the CNC surface with N-Benzylmaleimide (BnM). Six …