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Review of Recent Research into Cellulosic Whiskers, Their Properties and Their Application in Nanocomposite Field

My Ahmed Said Azizi Samir, +2 more
- 21 Jan 2005 - 
- Vol. 6, Iss: 2, pp 612-626
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There are numerous examples where animals or plants synthesize extracellular high-performance skeletal biocomposites consisting of a matrix reinforced by fibrous biopolymers, which occur as whisker-like microfibrils that are biosynthesized and deposited in a continuous fashion.
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This article is published in Biomacromolecules.The article was published on 2005-01-21. It has received 2114 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Cellulose.

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Further characterization of cellulose nanocrystal (CNC) preparation from sulfuric acid hydrolysis of cotton fibers

TL;DR: In this article, an 18% sodium hydroxide solution (S18) and the degree of polymerization (DP) of the cellulosic substrate during the sulfuric acid hydrolysis of cotton fibers were analyzed.
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Properties of plasticized composite films prepared from nanofibrillated cellulose and birch wood xylan

TL;DR: Xylans, an important sub-class of hemicelluloses, represent a largely untapped resource for new renewable materials derived from biomass and nanocellulose reinforcement of Xylans as mentioned in this paper.
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Applications of cellulose and chitin/chitosan derivatives and composites as antibacterial materials: current state and perspectives

TL;DR: This mini review describes the recent progress in derivatives and composites with potential antibacterial applications, including metal and metal oxide nanoparticles, which have improved physiochemical and biological properties.
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Nanoreinforced alginate-acerola puree coatings on acerola fruits

TL;DR: In this paper, the combination between acerola puree and alginate was reinforced with cellulose whiskers (CW) or montmorillonite (MMT) to form nanocomposite edible films and coatings.
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Short electrospun polymeric nanofibers reinforced polyimide nanocomposites

TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight the use of short electrospun fibers for the first time for the preparation of homogeneous polymer nanofiber/polymer composites and the improvement in mechanical properties by an order to magnitude compared to as-electrospun long and continuous nanofibers.
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The effects of shape on the interaction of colloidal particles

TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that colloids in general are apt to exhibit considerable deviations from Raoult's law and that crystalline phases retaining a fair proportion of solvent may separate from concentrated solutions.
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Crystal Structure and Hydrogen-Bonding System in Cellulose Iβ from Synchrotron X-ray and Neutron Fiber Diffraction

TL;DR: In this article, the crystal and molecular structure of cellulose Iβ were determined using synchrotron and neutron diffraction data recorded from oriented fibrous samples prepared by aligning cellulose microcrystals from tunicin.
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Cellulose: the structure slowly unravels

TL;DR: A review of the information gathered on cellulose structure over the last few decades can be found in this paper, where the authors attempt to bring together basic and complex information which has been gathered on the structure of native cellulose.
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Helicoidal self-ordering of cellulose microfibrils in aqueous suspension.

TL;DR: An in vitro system that attracts by its simplicity, where above a critical concentration the colloidal dispersion separates spontaneously into a chiral nematic liquid crystalline phase and solidifies into regularly twisted fibrillar layers that mimic the structural organization of helicoids in nature.
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