Cellulose: A review of water interactions, applications in composites, and water treatment

A Etale, AJ Onyianta, SR Turner, SJ Eichhorn - Chemical reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Cellulose is known to interact well with water, but is insoluble in it. Many polysaccharides
such as cellulose are known to have significant hydrogen bond networks joining the …

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 …

Flexible, stretchable and electrically conductive MXene/natural rubber nanocomposite films for efficient electromagnetic interference shielding

JQ Luo, S Zhao, HB Zhang, Z Deng, L Li… - Composites Science and …, 2019 - Elsevier
The rapid popularity of portable and wearable electronics requires high-performance flexible
electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding materials to cope with increasingly severe …

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 …

Naturally derived Janus cellulose nanomaterials: anisotropic cellulose nanomaterial building blocks and their assembly into asymmetric structures

Q Wang, R Zhou, J Sun, J Liu, Q Zhu - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
Naturally derived cellulose nanomaterials (CNMs) with desirable physicochemical
properties have drawn tremendous attention for their versatile applications in a broad range …

[HTML][HTML] Recent developments and prospective food-related applications of cellulose nanocrystals: A review

S Huang, X Liu, C Chang, Y Wang - Cellulose, 2020 - Springer
Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) with prominent mechanical properties are well known as the
natural reinforcing elements in composites and have received considerable interest over the …

Chemical modification of reducing end‐groups in cellulose nanocrystals

K Heise, G Delepierre, AWT King… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Native plant cellulose has an intrinsic supramolecular structure. Consequently, it can be
isolated as nanocellulose species, which can be utilized as building blocks for renewable …

[HTML][HTML] Biodegradable polymers: a cure for the planet, but a long way to go

GZ Yin, XM Yang - Journal of Polymer Research, 2020 - Springer
Nowadays, vigorously researching and developing biodegradable materials is an effective
way to solve the problem of white pollution. As far as we know, systematic research in …

Redispersion of dried plant nanocellulose: A review

Y Xu, Y Xu, H Chen, M Gao, X Yue, Y Ni - Carbohydrate Polymers, 2022 - Elsevier
Nanocellulose has undergone substantial development as a high value-added cellulose
product with broad applications. Dried products are advantageous to decrease …

Reducing end modification on cellulose nanocrystals: strategy, characterization, applications and challenges

H Tao, N Lavoine, F Jiang, J Tang, N Lin - Nanoscale horizons, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Different from traditional chemical surface modification, localized modification of the
reducing end groups of cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs), ie the active aldehyde groups …