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 …

Production routes to tailor the performance of cellulose nanocrystals

OM Vanderfleet, ED Cranston - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) are bio-based, high aspect ratio nanoparticles that are
industrially produced in tonne-per-day quantities across the globe. CNCs can be used to …

Large-scale fabrication of structurally coloured cellulose nanocrystal films and effect pigments

BE Droguet, HL Liang, B Frka-Petesic, RM Parker… - Nature materials, 2022 - nature.com
Cellulose nanocrystals are renewable plant-based colloidal particles capable of forming
photonic films by solvent-evaporation-driven self-assembly. So far, the cellulose nanocrystal …

Structural color from cellulose nanocrystals or chitin nanocrystals: self-assembly, optics, and applications

B Frka-Petesic, TG Parton, C Honorato-Rios… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Widespread concerns over the impact of human activity on the environment have resulted in
a desire to replace artificial functional materials with naturally derived alternatives. As such …

Recent developments on nanocellulose reinforced polymer nanocomposites: A review

H Kargarzadeh, M Mariano, J Huang, N Lin, I Ahmad… - Polymer, 2017 - Elsevier
The development of nanocellulose and nanocellulose-based composites and materials has
attracted significant interest in recent decades because they show unique and potentially …

Recent advances in nanocellulose processing, functionalization and applications: A review

V Thakur, A Guleria, S Kumar, S Sharma… - Materials Advances, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
In recent years, environmental and ecological concerns have become a major issue owing
to the expansion of petroleum-based synthetic materials and products, and therefore the …

Advances in cellulose nanomaterials

H Kargarzadeh, M Mariano, D Gopakumar, I Ahmad… - Cellulose, 2018 - Springer
Research on nanocellulose has significantly increased over the past few decades, owing to
the various attractive characteristics of this material, such as renewability, widespread …

Renewable cellulosic nanocomposites for food packaging to avoid fossil fuel plastic pollution: a review

U Qasim, AI Osman, AH Al-Muhtaseb, C Farrell… - Environmental …, 2021 - Springer
The extensive use of petroleum-based synthetic and non-biodegradable materials for
packaging applications has caused severe environmental damage. The rising demand for …

Thermal properties of nanocellulose‐reinforced composites: A review

PG Gan, ST Sam, MF Abdullah… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Nanocellulose has received increasing attention in science and industry in recent years as a
nanoscale material for the reinforcement of polymer matrix composites due to its superior …

Design and applications of man-made biomimetic fibrillar hydrogels

E Prince, E Kumacheva - Nature Reviews Materials, 2019 - nature.com
Many extracellular matrices (ECMs) have a filamentous architecture, which influences cell
growth and phenotype and imparts tissues with specific properties. Man-made fibrillar …