How many glucan chains form plant cellulose microfibrils? A mini review

DJ Cosgrove, P Dupree, ED Gomez… - …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Assessing the number of glucan chains in cellulose microfibrils (CMFs) is crucial for
understanding their structure–property relationships and interactions within plant cell walls …

[HTML][HTML] Applications of infrared spectroscopy in polysaccharide structural analysis: Progress, challenge and perspective

T Hong, JY Yin, SP Nie, MY Xie - Food chemistry: X, 2021 - Elsevier
Polysaccharides are important biomacromolecules with numerous beneficial functions and a
wide range of industrial applications. Functions and properties of polysaccharides are …

Hydrogen-bonding network and OH stretch vibration of cellulose: comparison of computational modeling with polarized IR and SFG spectra

CM Lee, JD Kubicki, B Fan, L Zhong… - The Journal of …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Hydrogen bonds play critical roles in noncovalent directional interactions determining the
crystal structure of cellulose. Although diffraction studies accurately determined the …

The shape of native plant cellulose microfibrils

JD Kubicki, H Yang, D Sawada, H O'Neill, D Oehme… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Determining the shape of plant cellulose microfibrils is critical for understanding plant cell
wall molecular architecture and conversion of cellulose into biofuels. Only recently has it …

Cellulose structural polymorphism in plant primary cell walls investigated by high-field 2D solid-state NMR spectroscopy and density functional theory calculations

T Wang, H Yang, JD Kubicki, M Hong - Biomacromolecules, 2016 - ACS Publications
The native cellulose of bacterial, algal, and animal origins has been well studied structurally
using X-ray and neutron diffraction and solid-state NMR spectroscopy, and is known to …

Additive Manufacturing with Cellulose‐Based Composites: Materials, Modeling, and Applications

S De, SJ Rukmani, X Zhao, C Clarkson… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Recent advances in large‐scale additive manufacturing (AM) with polymer‐based
composites have enabled efficient production of high‐performance materials. Cellulose …

Effects of xylan side-chain substitutions on xylan–cellulose interactions and implications for thermal pretreatment of cellulosic biomass

CS Pereira, RL Silveira, P Dupree, MS Skaf - Biomacromolecules, 2017 - ACS Publications
Lignocellulosic biomass is mainly constituted by cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin and
represents an important resource for the sustainable production of biofuels and green …

Atomic resolution of cotton cellulose structure enabled by dynamic nuclear polarization solid-state NMR

A Kirui, Z Ling, X Kang, MC Dickwella Widanage… - Cellulose, 2019 - Springer
The insufficient resolution of conventional methods has long limited the structural elucidation
of cellulose and its derivatives, especially for those with relatively low crystallinities or in …

Effects of interface properties on the mechanical properties of bio-inspired cellulose nanocrystal (CNC)-based materials

M Shishehbor, PD Zavattieri - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) is a new family of cellulose materials with outstanding
mechanical and chemical properties that have been successfully demonstrated to have …

Molecular Dynamics of Drying‐Induced Structural Transformations in a Single Nanocellulose

S Fujisawa, K Daicho, A Yurtsever, T Fukuma, T Saito - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Nanocellulose is attracting attention in the field of materials science as a sustainable
building block. Nanocellulose‐based materials, such as films, membranes, and foams, are …