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 …

Potential of wood hemicelluloses and their derivates as food ingredients

F Abik, C Palasingh, M Bhattarai… - Journal of agricultural …, 2023 - ACS Publications
A holistic utilization of all lignocellulosic wood biomass, instead of the current approach of
using only the cellulose fraction, is crucial for the efficient, ecological, and economical use of …

Wood hemicelluloses exert distinct biomechanical contributions to cellulose fibrillar networks

J Berglund, D Mikkelsen, BM Flanagan, S Dhital… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Hemicelluloses, a family of heterogeneous polysaccharides with complex molecular
structures, constitute a fundamental component of lignocellulosic biomass. However, the …

[HTML][HTML] Acidic and alkaline deep eutectic solvents in delignification and nanofibrillation of corn stalk, wheat straw, and rapeseed stem residues

T Suopajärvi, P Ricci, V Karvonen, G Ottolina… - Industrial crops and …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this work, six different deep eutectic solvent (DES) treatments—five acidic (natural organic
acid–choline chloride) and one alkaline (K 2 CO 3–glycerol)—were used and compared in …

[HTML][HTML] Enabling unidirectional thermal conduction of wood-supported phase change material for photo-to-thermal energy conversion and heat regulation

X Shi, Y Meng, R Bi, Z Wan, Y Zhu, OJ Rojas - Composites Part B …, 2022 - Elsevier
Phase change materials (PCMs) enable passive thermal management by minimizing energy
waste. However, a limitation of organic PCMs is their low thermal conductivity, which leads …

Physicochemical properties and thermal stability of microcrystalline cellulose isolated from esparto grass using different delignification approaches

M Beroual, L Boumaza, O Mehelli, D Trache… - Journal of Polymers and …, 2021 - Springer
Esparto grass, known as alfa, is a renewable biomass widely distributed in southern and
western Mediterranean basin. The present work focused on the isolation of pure cellulose …

Effect of the delignification process on the physicochemical properties and thermal stability of microcrystalline cellulose extracted from date palm fronds

M Beroual, D Trache, O Mehelli, L Boumaza… - Waste and Biomass …, 2021 - Springer
In this study, pure cellulose was isolated from Algerian date palm fronds (DPF) using three
different delignification processes (acidified NaClO 2, totally chlorine free (TCF) and their …

[HTML][HTML] Entropy drives the adsorption of xyloglucan to cellulose surfaces–a molecular dynamics study

S Kishani, T Benselfelt, L Wågberg, J Wohlert - Journal of Colloid and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The adsorption of nonionic polymers to cellulose is of large importance both in the plant cell
wall during synthesis and for the development of sustainable materials from wood. Here, the …

Polymer films from cellulose nanofibrils—effects from interfibrillar interphase on mechanical behavior

X Yang, E Jungstedt, MS Reid, LA Berglund - Macromolecules, 2021 - ACS Publications
Dense polymeric films based on network-forming cellulose nanofibrils (CNFs) have
excellent mechanical properties but are limited by moisture sensitivity. Here, interfibrillar …

Effect of lignin and hemicellulose on the properties of lignocellulose nanofibril suspensions

G Albornoz-Palma, D Ching, O Valerio, RT Mendonça… - Cellulose, 2020 - Springer
Lignocellulose nanofibrils (LCNFs) are nano-objects produced in aqueous suspension by
industrially adaptable methods, with a high yield, low production cost and the potential to …