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Applied Sciences, 2021 Motivated by the negative impact of fossil fuel consumption on the environment, the need arises to produce materials and energy from renewable sources. Cellulose, the main biopolymer on Earth, plays a key role in this context, serving as a platform for ...
David Ibarra +4 more
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Microwave-Assisted Defibrillation of Microalgae
Molecules, 2021 The first production of defibrillated celluloses from microalgal biomass using acid-free, TEMPO-free and bleach-free hydrothermal microwave processing is reported. Two routes were explored: i.
Frederik L. Zitzmann +3 more
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Unraveling Cellulose Microfibrils: A Twisted Tale [PDF]
Biopolymers, 2013 ABSTRACTMolecular dynamics (MD) simulations of cellulose microfibrils are pertinent to the paper, textile, and biofuels industries for their unique capacity to characterize dynamic behavior and atomic‐level interactions with solvent molecules and cellulase enzymes.
Hadden, Jodi A. +2 more
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Journal of Materials Research and Technology, 2020 Most by-product wastes of the coffee industry are underutilized, including a fibrous husk that covers the coffee seeds, known as parchment. The present work aims to characterize the parchment fiber and to study the influence of alkaline treatment ...
Raquel S. Reis +4 more
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Fundamentals of and advances in nanocellulose and nanochitin systems
Advanced Industrial and Engineering Polymer Research, 2023 Due to the deleterious environmental consequences resulting from a broad spectrum of synthetic polymers during use or post-application disposal, interest in biomaterials obtained from eco-friendly and sustainable sources is growing.
Soo-Ah Jin, Richard J. Spontak
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Cellulose / Dry, hydrophobic microfibrillated cellulose powder obtained in a simple procedure using alkyl ketene dimer [PDF]
, 2016 In order to produce dry and hydrophobic microfibrillated cellulose (MFC) in a simple procedure, its modification with alkyl ketene dimer (AKD) was performed. For this purpose, MFC was solvent-exchanged to ethyl acetate and mixed with AKD dissolved in the
Amer, Hassan +10 more
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High Performance Polysodium Acrylate Superabsorbents Utilizing Microfibrillated Cellulose to Augment Gel Properties [PDF]
, 2010 Microfibrillated cellulose was utilized at low concentrations as a filler material, added prior to free radical polymerization, in cross-linked superabsorbent polysodium acrylate hydrogels.
Larsson, Anette +2 more
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Cellulosic materials as natural fillers in starch-containing matrix-based films: a review [PDF]
, 2016 In this work, the different cellulosic materials, namely cellulose and lignin are analyzed. In addition, the starch-containing matrices (isolated starch and flour) reinforced with cellulosic materials to be used in packaging applications are described ...
Alvarez, Vera Alejandra +1 more
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Chemical Engineering Transactions, 2014 Carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) and microfibrillated cellulose (MFC) are here employed as bio-sourced fillers in quasi-solid electrolytes for polymeric dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs).
F. Bella +4 more
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Journal of Materials Science / Reduced polarity and improved dispersion of microfibrillated cellulose in poly(lactic-acid) provided by residual lignin and hemicellulose [PDF]
, 2016 in deutscher Sprache nicht verf\ufcgbarThe surface chemistry and dispersion in poly(lactic-acid) of microfibrillated wood and microfibrillated lignocellulose prepared from untreated and partially delignified beech were compared with conventional ...
Andorfer, L. +8 more
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