By controlling the interaction of biological building blocks at the nanoscale, natural photonic
nanostructures have been optimized to produce intense coloration. Inspired by such …

Chitin is one of the most abundant natural polymers in world and it is used for the production
of chitosan by deacetylation. Chitosan is antibacterial in nature, non-toxic, and …

The transfer of chirality across length-scales is an intriguing and universal natural
phenomenon. However, connecting the properties of individual building blocks to the …

In this review we introduce recent advances in the development of cellulose nanomaterials
and the construction of high order structures by applying some principles of colloid and …

This specialist monograph provides an overview of the recent research on the fundamental
and applied properties of nanoparticles extracted from cellulose, the most abundant polymer …

Nanocellulose fibrils are ubiquitous in nature and nanotechnologies but their mesoscopic
structural assembly is not yet fully understood. Here we study the structural features of rod …

In this work, nanocellulose was extracted from bleached corncob residue (CCR), an
underutilized lignocellulose waste from furfural industry, using four different methods (ie …

Bottom-up synthesis strategies to construct nano-architectonic material exhibiting specific
properties by controlling the spatial distribution of the material units are challenging. Native …

Cellulose nanocrystal suspensions in apolar solvent spontaneously form iridescent liquid
crystalline phases but the control of their macroscopic order is usually poor. The use of …

Cellulosic sources, such as lignocellulose-rich biomass, can be mechanically or acid
degraded to produce inclusions called cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs). They have several …