Acrocomia spp.: neglected crop, ballyhooed multipurpose palm or fit for the bioeconomy? A review

R Vargas-Carpintero, T Hilger, J Mössinger… - Agronomy for …, 2021 - Springer
Acrocomia spp., a genus of wild-growing palms in the neotropics, is rapidly gaining interest
as a promising multipurpose crop. Diverse products can be derived from various …

Isolation and characterization of cellulose nanocrystals from waste cotton fibers using sulfuric acid hydrolysis

S Soleimani, A Heydari, M Fattahi - Starch‐Stärke, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) are one of the most useful materials that have recently been
used in various fields. There are many natural resources on earth from which CNC can be …

Isolation and characterization of cellulose nanocrystals produced by acid hydrolysis from Banana Pseudostem

G Zope, A Goswami, S Kulkarni - BioNanoScience, 2022 - Springer
Synthesis of useful products from waste material improves the process economy and
sustainability. Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) have unique properties like nanoscale …

Biomass-derived carbon quantum dot: “On–off-on” fluorescent sensor for rapid detection of multi-metal ions and green photocatalytic CO2 reduction in water

S Raja, GTST da Silva, S Anbu, C Ribeiro… - Biomass Conversion …, 2024 - Springer
We have developed carbon quantum dots (CQDs) with excellent photoluminescence (PL)
properties from macaúba (Acrocomia aculeate) fibers; a widely available cellulosic biomass …

Functionalized cellulose nanocrystals for cellular labeling and bioimaging

S Raja, AEI Hamouda, MAS de Toledo, C Hu… - …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) are unique and promising natural nanomaterials that can be
extracted from native cellulose fibers by acid hydrolysis. In this study, we developed …

Structure and emulsifying properties of unprecedent glucomannan oligo-and polysaccharides from Amazonia Acrocomia aculeata palm fruit

W Denagbe, R Covis, JP Guegan, JC Robinson… - Carbohydrate …, 2024 - Elsevier
Acrocomia aculeata fruit pulp contains oil (4.1–82.8% fresh matter) and carbohydrates (6.6–
98.0% fresh matter). To date, only the oil fraction is valorized because very little is known …

Influence of sequential liquid ammonia and caustic mercerization pre-treatment on dyeing performance of knit cotton fabric

L Lin, T Jiang, Y Liang, MN Pervez, R Navik, B Gao… - Materials, 2022 - mdpi.com
A two-stage sequential pretreatment including caustic mercerization (CM) and liquid
ammonia (LA) treatment was applied to investigate the influence on dyeing performance …

Poly (ε-caprolactone) blended with thermoplastic waxy starch matrix reinforced with cellulose nanocrystals from Macauba (Acrocomia spp.) Rachis

AF Manoel, PIC Claro, F Galvani, LHC Mattoso… - Industrial Crops and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Aiming at a sustainable bionanocomposites, cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) were extracted
by acid hydrolysis from rachis fibers of macauba (Acrocomia spp.) palm trees natural of the …

Characterization and in vitro biocompatibility analysis of nanocellulose scaffold for tissue engineering application

R Unni, R Varghese, Y Bharat Dalvi… - Journal of Polymer …, 2022 - Springer
Tissue engineering aims to exploit the regenerative capacity of cells and connect the
inherent ability of the body to repair and regenerate. Cells are seeded onto a porous three …

A facile, low-thermal, and environmentally friendly method to improve the properties of lignin-containing cellulose nanocrystals (LCNCs) and cellulose nanofibrils …

S Ghahramani, S Hedjazi, S Izadyar, S Fischer… - Biomass Conversion …, 2023 - Springer
Using novel treatments before lignin-containing nanocelluloses (LNCs) production from
agricultural residues is a growing field of fondness due to environmental, economic, and …