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 …

The colloidal properties of nanocellulose

T Benselfelt, N Kummer, M Nordenström… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Nanocelluloses are anisotropic nanoparticles of semicrystalline assemblies of glucan
polymers. They have great potential as renewable building blocks in the materials platform …

A review of nanocrystalline cellulose suspensions: Rheology, liquid crystal ordering and colloidal phase behaviour

Y Xu, A Atrens, JR Stokes - Advances in colloid and interface science, 2020 - Elsevier
Nanocrystalline cellulose (NCC) is a colloidal rigid rod, referred to by various terms in the
literature including cellulose whisker (CW) and cellulose nanocrystal (CNC). These charged …

[HTML][HTML] Rheological behaviour of attractive emulsions differing in droplet-droplet interaction strength

PL Fuhrmann, S Breunig, G Sala, L Sagis… - Journal of colloid and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Hypothesis We hypothesise that interaction strength between oil droplets determine the
rheological properties of oil-in-water (O/W) emulsions by simultaneous formation and break …

Formation of colloidal nanocellulose glasses and gels

M Nordenström, A Fall, G Nyström, L Wågberg - Langmuir, 2017 - ACS Publications
Nanocellulose (NC) suspensions can form rigid volume-spanning arrested states (VASs) at
very low volume fractions. The transition from a free-flowing dispersion to a VAS can be the …

Responsive hydrogel colloids: Structure, interactions, phase behavior, and equilibrium and nonequilibrium transitions of microgel dispersions

J Brijitta, P Schurtenberger - Current opinion in colloid & interface science, 2019 - Elsevier
Soft and responsive colloids based on polymer hydrogels have moved into the focus of the
colloid community. This review gives a brief overview of the recent literature on the structure …

“Liquid, gel and soft glass” phase transitions and rheology of nanocrystalline cellulose suspensions as a function of concentration and salinity

Y Xu, AD Atrens, JR Stokes - Soft Matter, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The colloidal size and rod morphology of nanocrystalline cellulose (NCC) lead to
suspensions with useful phase and gelation behaviours as well as complex rheologies …

Rheological aspects of colloidal gels in thermoresponsive microgel suspensions: formation, structure, and linear and nonlinear viscoelasticity

S Minami, D Suzuki, K Urayama - Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface …, 2019 - Elsevier
This review focuses on the rheological aspects of colloidal gels that are a three-dimensional
sparse network made of aggregated attractive particles formed in the aqueous suspensions …

Reversible formation of thermoresponsive binary particle gels with tunable structural and mechanical properties

JN Immink, JJE Maris, JJ Crassous, J Stenhammar… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
We investigate the collective behavior of suspended thermoresponsive microgels that expel
solvent and subsequently decrease in size upon heating. Using a binary mixture of …

Glass and Jamming Rheology in Soft Particles made of PNIPAM and polyacrylic acid

S Franco, E Buratti, V Nigro, E Zaccarelli… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The phase behaviour of soft colloids has attracted great attention due to the large variety of
new phenomenologies emerging from their ability to pack at very high volume fractions …