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 …

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 …

Comparison and assessment of methods for cellulose crystallinity determination

KS Salem, NK Kasera, MA Rahman… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The degree of crystallinity in cellulose significantly affects the physical, mechanical, and
chemical properties of cellulosic materials, their processing, and their final application …

Cellulose and the role of hydrogen bonds: not in charge of everything

M Wohlert, T Benselfelt, L Wågberg, I Furó… - Cellulose, 2022 - Springer
In the cellulose scientific community, hydrogen bonding is often used as the explanation for
a large variety of phenomena and properties related to cellulose and cellulose based …

Cellulose and its derivatives: towards biomedical applications

H Seddiqi, E Oliaei, H Honarkar, J Jin, LC Geonzon… - Cellulose, 2021 - Springer
Cellulose is the most abundant polysaccharide on Earth. It can be obtained from a vast
number of sources, eg cell walls of wood and plants, some species of bacteria, and algae …

Building an extensible cell wall

DJ Cosgrove - Plant Physiology, 2022 - academic.oup.com
This article recounts, from my perspective of four decades in this field, evolving paradigms of
primary cell wall structure and the mechanism of surface enlargement of growing cell walls …

Nanocellulose for sustainable water purification

R Das, T Lindstrom, PR Sharma, K Chi… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nanocelluloses (NC) are nature-based sustainable biomaterials, which not only possess
cellulosic properties but also have the important hallmarks of nanomaterials, such as large …

Structure–property–function relationships of natural and engineered wood

C Chen, Y Kuang, S Zhu, I Burgert, T Keplinger… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
The complex structure of wood, one of the most abundant biomaterials on Earth, has been
optimized over 270 million years of tree evolution. This optimization has led to the highly …

Cellulose‐based flexible functional materials for emerging intelligent electronics

D Zhao, Y Zhu, W Cheng, W Chen, Y Wu… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
There is currently enormous and growing demand for flexible electronics for personalized
mobile equipment, human–machine interface units, wearable medical‐healthcare systems …

The plant cell wall: Biosynthesis, construction, and functions

B Zhang, Y Gao, L Zhang, Y Zhou - Journal of Integrative Plant …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The plant cell wall is composed of multiple biopolymers, representing one of the most
complex structural networks in nature. Hundreds of genes are involved in building such a …