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 …

Insights into hierarchical structure–property–application relationships of advanced bacterial cellulose materials

Z Wu, S Chen, J Li, B Wang, M Jin… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Bacterial cellulose (BC) is an environmentally friendly biomaterial that is widely investigated
because it possesses a unique hierarchical nanofiber network structure as well as …

Nanocelluloses: a new family of nature‐based materials

D Klemm, F Kramer, S Moritz… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Cellulose fibrils with widths in the nanometer range are nature‐based materials with unique
and potentially useful features. Most importantly, these novel nanocelluloses open up the …

Biodegradable piezoelectric polymers: recent advancements in materials and applications

M Ali, MJ Bathaei, E Istif, SNH Karimi… - Advanced Healthcare …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Recent materials, microfabrication, and biotechnology improvements have introduced
numerous exciting bioelectronic devices based on piezoelectric materials. There is an …

Cellulose nanomaterials review: structure, properties and nanocomposites

RJ Moon, A Martini, J Nairn, J Simonsen… - Chemical Society …, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
This critical review provides a processing-structure-property perspective on recent advances
in cellulose nanoparticles and composites produced from them. It summarizes cellulose …

More than meets the eye in bacterial cellulose: biosynthesis, bioprocessing, and applications in advanced fiber composites

KY Lee, G Buldum, A Mantalaris… - Macromolecular …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Bacterial cellulose (BC) nanofibers are one of the stiffest organic materials produced by
nature. It consists of pure cellulose without the impurities that are commonly found in plant …

Applications of bacterial cellulose as precursor of carbon and composites with metal oxide, metal sulfide and metal nanoparticles: A review of recent advances

ML Foresti, A Vázquez, B Boury - Carbohydrate Polymers, 2017 - Elsevier
This mini review is limited to very recent studies (last 5–10 years) on two major issues,
concerning: the production and physical/chemical modification of bacterial cellulose (BC) …

The future prospects of microbial cellulose in biomedical applications

WK Czaja, DJ Young, M Kawecki… - biomacromolecules, 2007 - ACS Publications
Microbial cellulose has proven to be a remarkably versatile biomaterial and can be used in
wide variety of applied scientific endeavors, such as paper products, electronics, acoustics …

The relevance of structural features of cellulose and its interactions to dissolution, regeneration, gelation and plasticization phenomena

B Lindman, B Medronho, L Alves, C Costa… - Physical Chemistry …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Cellulose is the most abundant polymer and a very important renewable resource. Since
cellulose cannot be shaped by melting, a major route for its use for novel materials, new …

Recent developments in the production and applications of bacterial cellulose fibers and nanocrystals

I Reiniati, AN Hrymak, A Margaritis - Critical reviews in …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Cellulosic nanomaterials provide a novel and sustainable platform for the production of high
performance materials enabled by nanotechnology. Bacterial cellulose (BC) is a highly …