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What is Introduction to Nanocellulose about?

Cellulose is the most abundant polymer on earth produced by plants, microorganisms, and cell-free systems. Chemically, it is composed of repeated β-d-glucose monomers linked together through β-(1,4) glycoside linkage. The morphology of natural cellulose is usually fibrous with intermittent crystalline and amorphous sections [1]. Separation of fibers results in nanoscale cellulose substances known as nanocellulose, which exists in different morphologies such as cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) or cellulose nanowhiskers (CNWs) as another name, and cellulose nanofibers (CNFs) (Figure 1.1). Compared to the plant cellulose containing lignin and hemicelluloses, microbial cellulose, termed as bacterial nanocellulose (BNC) and cell-free cellulose, represents the purest form of cellulose. Nanocellulose exhibits distinctive structural and physicochemical, mechanical, and biological characteristics, including reticulate fibrous three-dimensional web-shaped structure, high crystallinity, good mechanical strength, biocompatibility, biodegradability, optical transparency, high specific surface area, polyfunctionality, hydrophilicity, and moldability into 3D structures [2][3][4]. As a sustainable ma

Author

Jin Huang; Xiaozhou Ma; Guang Yang; Dufresne Alain

Publisher

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9783527342693

Subjects

Engineering, Technology, Science