Surface and interface engineering for nanocellulosic advanced materials

X Yang, SK Biswas, J Han, S Tanpichai… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
How do trees support their upright massive bodies? The support comes from the incredibly
strong and stiff, and highly crystalline nanoscale fibrils of extended cellulose chains, called …

Nanocellulose in emulsions and heterogeneous water‐based polymer systems: A review

SA Kedzior, VA Gabriel, MA Dubé… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Nanocelluloses (ie, bacterial nanocellulose, cellulose nanocrystals, and cellulose
nanofibrils) are cellulose‐based materials with at least one dimension in the nanoscale …

Emulsion templating: porous polymers and beyond

T Zhang, RA Sanguramath, S Israel… - Macromolecules, 2019 - ACS Publications
Emulsion templating presently extends far beyond the original hydrophobic porous polymers
that were synthesized within surfactant-stabilized water-in-oil high internal phase emulsions …

Nanocellulose properties and applications in colloids and interfaces

C Salas, T Nypelö, C Rodriguez-Abreu… - Current Opinion in …, 2014 - Elsevier
In this review we introduce recent advances in the development of cellulose nanomaterials
and the construction of high order structures by applying some principles of colloid and …

Pickering stabilization of foams and emulsions with particles of biological origin

S Lam, KP Velikov, OD Velev - Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface …, 2014 - Elsevier
The focus in the study of Pickering foams and emulsions has recently been shifting from
using inorganic particles to adopting particles of biological origin for stabilization. This shift is …

Nanocellulose-stabilized Pickering emulsions and their applications

S Fujisawa, E Togawa, K Kuroda - Science and Technology of …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Pickering emulsion, which is an emulsion stabilized by solid particles, offers a wide range of
potential applications because it generally provides a more stable system than surfactant …

[HTML][HTML] Functional nanomaterials through esterification of cellulose: a review of chemistry and application

Y Wang, X Wang, Y Xie, K Zhang - Cellulose, 2018 - Springer
As the most abundant biopolymer in nature, cellulose has become a fascinating building
block for the design of functional nanomaterials. Owing to the presence of numerous …

Behavior of nanocelluloses at interfaces

I Capron, OJ Rojas, R Bordes - Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface …, 2017 - Elsevier
Despite being non-surface active, nanocelluloses position efficiently at interfaces, already at
very low concentration. This behavior has lately triggered a strong interest in the 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 …

New Pickering emulsions stabilized by bacterial cellulose nanocrystals

I Kalashnikova, H Bizot, B Cathala, I Capron - Langmuir, 2011 - ACS Publications
We studied oil in water Pickering emulsions stabilized by cellulose nanocrystals obtained by
hydrochloric acid hydrolysis of bacterial cellulose. The resulting solid particles, called …