Understanding nanocellulose–water interactions: Turning a detriment into an asset

L Solhi, V Guccini, K Heise, I Solala… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Modern technology has enabled the isolation of nanocellulose from plant-based fibers, and
the current trend focuses on utilizing nanocellulose in a broad range of sustainable …

Cellulose nanocrystals: Pretreatments, preparation strategies, and surface functionalization

AK Rana, E Frollini, VK Thakur - International Journal of Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) have attracted great interest from researchers from academic
and industrial areas because of their interesting structural features and unique …

Nanocellulose: recent fundamental advances and emerging biological and biomimicking applications

K Heise, E Kontturi, Y Allahverdiyeva… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In the effort toward sustainable advanced functional materials, nanocelluloses have
attracted extensive recent attention. Nanocelluloses range from rod‐like highly crystalline …

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 …

Surface modifications of nanocellulose: From synthesis to high-performance nanocomposites

M Ghasemlou, F Daver, EP Ivanova, Y Habibi… - Progress in Polymer …, 2021 - Elsevier
Nanocellulose is at the cutting edge of current research owing to its highly useful features,
such as abundance and renewability of its source, biocompatibility, nanoscale dimension …

Surface-initiated controlled radical polymerization: state-of-the-art, opportunities, and challenges in surface and interface engineering with polymer brushes

JO Zoppe, NC Ataman, P Mocny, J Wang… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The generation of polymer brushes by surface-initiated controlled radical polymerization (SI-
CRP) techniques has become a powerful approach to tailor the chemical and physical …

Advances in cellulose nanomaterials

H Kargarzadeh, M Mariano, D Gopakumar, I Ahmad… - Cellulose, 2018 - Springer
Research on nanocellulose has significantly increased over the past few decades, owing to
the various attractive characteristics of this material, such as renewability, widespread …

Advanced materials through assembly of nanocelluloses

E Kontturi, P Laaksonen, MB Linder… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
There is an emerging quest for lightweight materials with excellent mechanical properties
and economic production, while still being sustainable and functionalizable. They could form …

Harvesting energy from extreme environmental conditions with cellulosic triboelectric materials

Y Shao, B Luo, T Liu, C Cai, X Meng, S Wang, S Nie - Materials Today, 2023 - Elsevier
Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs), as a new energy conversion device in self-powered
sensing devices, have been used at extreme environmental conditions, which poses great …

Key advances in the chemical modification of nanocelluloses

Y Habibi - Chemical Society Reviews, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanocelluloses, including nanocrystalline cellulose, nanofibrillated cellulose and bacterial
cellulose nanofibers, have become fascinating building blocks for the design of new …