[HTML][HTML] Advancing plant cell wall modelling: Atomistic insights into cellulose, disordered cellulose, and hemicelluloses–A review

A Khodayari, U Hirn, S Spirk, Y Ogawa, D Seveno… - Carbohydrate …, 2024 - Elsevier
The complexity of plant cell walls on different hierarchical levels still impedes the detailed
understanding of biosynthetic pathways, interferes with processing in industry and finally …

Nanoscale mechanism of moisture-induced swelling in wood microfibril bundles

A Paajanen, A Zitting, L Rautkari, JA Ketoja… - Nano …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Understanding nanoscale moisture interactions is fundamental to most applications of wood,
including cellulosic nanomaterials with tailored properties. By combining X-ray scattering …

A systematic examination of the dynamics of water-cellulose interactions on capillary force-induced fiber collapse

KS Salem, V Naithani, H Jameel, L Lucia, L Pal - Carbohydrate Polymers, 2022 - Elsevier
Cellulosic fiber collapse is a phenomenon of fundamental importance for many technologies
that include tissue/hygiene to packaging because it governs their essential materials …

Hygromechanical mechanisms of wood cell wall revealed by molecular modeling and mixture rule analysis

C Zhang, M Chen, S Keten, B Coasne, D Derome… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Despite the thousands of years of wood utilization, the mechanisms of wood
hygromechanics remain barely elucidated, owing to the nanoscopic system size and highly …

[HTML][HTML] Combining scattering analysis and atomistic simulation of wood-water interactions

PA Penttilä, A Paajanen, JA Ketoja - Carbohydrate Polymers, 2021 - Elsevier
Molecular-scale interactions between water and cellulose microfibril bundles in plant cell
walls are not fully understood, despite their crucial role for many applications of plant …

Chirality and bound water in the hierarchical cellulose structure

A Paajanen, S Ceccherini, T Maloney, JA Ketoja - Cellulose, 2019 - Springer
The origins of the unique properties of natural fibres have remained largely unresolved
because of the complex interrelations between structural hierarchy, chirality and bound …

Computational and experimental insights into the molecular architecture of water-cellulose networks

KS Salem, N Barrios, H Jameel, L Pal, L Lucia - Matter, 2023 - cell.com
The current perspective attempts to provide key insights into several major aspects of water
solvation supported by several experimental and computational investigations. It is …

Achieving enhanced interfacial adhesion and dispersion in cellulose nanocomposites via amorphous interfaces

W Xia, X Qin, Y Zhang, R Sinko, S Keten - Macromolecules, 2018 - ACS Publications
Understanding and designing nanoscale interfaces are essential to advancing the
thermomechanical performance of polymer nanocomposites reinforced by nanocellulose. In …

Moisture sorption isotherms and hysteresis of cellulose, hemicelluloses and lignin isolated from birch wood and their effects on wood hygroscopicity

S Hou, J Wang, F Yin, C Qi, J Mu - Wood Science and Technology, 2022 - Springer
Cellulose, hemicelluloses, and lignin in wood have completely different structures and
hygroscopicity, which markedly impact the wood moisture adsorption properties. The …

Hydration solids

SG Harrellson, MS DeLay, X Chen, AH Cavusoglu… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Hygroscopic biological matter in plants, fungi and bacteria make up a large fraction of
Earth's biomass. Although metabolically inert, these water-responsive materials exchange …