The cellulose industry depends heavily on water owing to the hydrophilic nature of cellulose
fibrils and its potential for sustainable and innovative production methods. The emergence of …

Cellulose, an abundant biopolymer in nature as a structural component of plant cell walls,
has a native semi-crystalline structure in which the arrangement of amorphous-crystalline …

Cellulose-based materials are widely used in the biomedical field. However, the lack of
antibacterial activities of cellulose fibers inevitably causes bacterial infection damages. In …

A wet cotton rag becomes stiff after natural drying. We propose a model for this hardening
phenomenon, which explains that the stiffness of cotton is caused by a cross-linked network …

Shale hydration and swelling are major hindrances for using water-based drilling fluids to
develop shale gas. Quantitative investigation of the hydration behavior of clay minerals is …

Cellulose nanofibrils (CNFs) have attracted much attention because of their renewability and
potential biocompatibility. However, CNFs are extremely hydrophilic due to the presence of …

Although molecular-scale wood-water interactions needed for moisture-durability can lead
to the accelerated development of moisture-durable products, these interactions are often …

Polymer dielectrics with a high energy density, an outstanding breakdown strength, and a
low dielectric loss are currently in great demand in the field of film capacitors. Here, on the …

Cellulose nanocrystals (CNC) exhibit great potential as a food emulsifier or functional
material template. Herein, CNC-Fe nanoparticles were successfully prepared via an in situ …

Controlling the diffusion of amine monomers plays a crucial role in fabricating well-defined
architecture and high-performance nanofiltration (NF) membranes through interfacial …