Diffraction evidence for the structure of cellulose microfibrils in bamboo, a model for grass and cereal celluloses. [PDF]
BMC Plant Biol, 2015 Background: Cellulose from grasses and cereals makes up much of the potential raw material for biofuel production. It is not clear if cellulose microfibrils from grasses and cereals differ in structure from those of other plants.
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The Shape of Native Plant Cellulose Microfibrils [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2018 Determining the shape of plant cellulose microfibrils is critical for understanding plant cell wall molecular architecture and conversion of cellulose into biofuels.
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Isolation of cellulose microfibrils - An enzymatic approach [PDF]
BioResources, 2006 Isolation methods and applications of cellulose microfibrils are expanding rapidly due to environmental benefits and specific strength properties, especially in bio-composite science. In this research, we have success-fully developed and explored a novel
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Dissecting the molecular mechanism underlying the intimate relationship between cellulose microfibrils and cortical microtubules [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2014 A central question in plant cell development is how the cell wall determines directional cell expansion and therefore the final shape of the cell. As the major load-bearing component of the cell wall, cellulose microfibrils are laid down transversely to ...
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Nanostructure of cellulose microfibrils in spruce wood. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2011 The structure of cellulose microfibrils in wood is not known in detail, despite the abundance of cellulose in woody biomass and its importance for biology, energy, and engineering.
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Xylan Is Critical for Proper Bundling and Alignment of Cellulose Microfibrils in Plant Secondary Cell Walls. [PDF]
Front Plant Sci, 2021 Plant biomass represents an abundant and increasingly important natural resource and it mainly consists of a number of cell types that have undergone extensive secondary cell wall (SCW) formation. These cell types are abundant in the stems of Arabidopsis,
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How Many Glucan Chains Form Plant Cellulose Microfibrils? A Mini Review. [PDF]
BiomacromoleculesAssessing the number of glucan chains in cellulose microfibrils (CMFs) is crucial for understanding their structure–property relationships and interactions within plant cell walls.
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Nanoscale movements of cellulose microfibrils in primary cell walls. [PDF]
Nat Plants, 2017 The growing plant cell wall is commonly considered to be a fibre-reinforced structure whose strength, extensibility and anisotropy depend on the orientation of crystalline cellulose microfibrils, their bonding to the polysaccharide matrix and matrix ...
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Composite Gels Containing Whey Protein Fibrils and Bacterial Cellulose Microfibrils. [PDF]
J Food Sci, 2019 In this study, we investigated the gelation of WPI fibrils in the presence of bacterial cellulose (BC) microfibrils at pH 2 upon prolonged heating. Rheology and microstructure were investigated as a function of BC microfibril concentration.
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A finger-jointing model for describing ultrastructures of cellulose microfibrils [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 In this paper, we propose a finger-jointing model to describe the possible ultrastructures of cellulose microfibrils based on new observations obtained through heating of 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-1-oxyl (TEMPO) oxidized cellulose nanofibrils (CNFs ...
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