Modification of glycidyl methacrylate based cryogels by cellulose nanocrystals and determination of dye adsorption performance

Cellulose - Cellulose nanocrystal (CNC) modified poly(2-hydroxy ethyl methacrylate- glycidyl methacrylate) [poly(HEMA-GMA)] cryogels were prepared by base-catalyzed CNC addition. Resultant cryogels...     

Composites of polystyrene and surface modified cellulose nanocrystals prepared by melt processing

Cellulose - Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) were surface modified with benzoic acid anhydride (BzAnh) at room temperature in 48-h reaction time. FTIR spectroscopy confirmed the high degree of...     

Design of antibacterial cellulose nanofibril film by the incorporation of guanidine-attached lignin nanoparticles

Cellulose - Cellulose nanofibril (CNF) films have attracted great attention in food packaging application due to their excellent mechanical strength and oxygen barrier properties. If antibacterial...     

Extended ensemble molecular dynamics study of cellulose I–ethylenediamine complex crystal models: atomistic picture of desorption behaviors of ethylenediamine

Cellulose - Cellulose I crystals swell on exposure to ethylenediamine (EDA) molecules to form a cellulose I–EDA complex, and successive extraction of EDA molecules converts the complex...     

Development of an integrated process to produce CNFs and lignin and its potential applications for agrochemical delivery

Cellulose - This work aimed to study the use of cellulose nanofibers (CNFs) from coir husk fibers to develop nanocomposite hydrogels. Cellulose and lignin were obtained from coir husk using the...     

COMMUNICATION: Culture conditions producing structure entities composed of Cellulose I and II in bacterial cellulose

Culture conditions for the production of Cellulose I and/or II structures have been investigated by transmission electron microscopy using smooth colonies of Acetobacter xylinum ATCC23769. Cells prepared from smooth colonies produce the band material composed of Cellulose II in phosphate buffer (pH 7) at 4 °C. In contrast, the same cells produce the normal twisting ribbons of Cellulose I when the incubation temperature is raised to 28 °C. The band material is also produced at 4 °C in 2% buffered glucose solution and in the standard Hestrin-Schramm medium. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

A low-cost environmentally friendly approach to isolate lignin containing micro and nanofibrillated cellulose from Eucalyptus globulus bark by steam explosion

Cellulose - Micro- and Nano-Fibrillated Cellulose (MNFC) have gained increasing attention due to their remarkable properties, but their production usually requires an intensive multi-step process....     

Studies concerning the accessibility of different allomorphic forms of cellulose

The supramolecular architecture and the morphological structure of cellulose play an important role in its accessibility. In order to evaluate the effect of the crystalline form of organization on the accessibility, we selected cellulosic materials with significant variations in the aforementioned characteristics. The assessment of the accessibility of cellulosic materials was performed experimentally through a water vapor sorption method. The kinetics and the thermodynamic parameters of water vapor sorption process were determined, and a correlation between the Flory–Huggins interaction parameters and the crystallinity index was derived. We concluded that the allomorph involving the most accessible crystal surfaces and amorphous regions was Cellulose II. The correlation of the accessibility values with those of the crystallinity index allowed us to evaluate the accessibility of the allomorphic forms of cellulose at different crystallinity indexes. The obtained experimental data allowed us to quantify the accessibility for crystal surfaces and amorphous regions of the different allomorphs in the order Cellulose II (38%) > Cellulose I (24%) > Cellulose III (10%).     

Influence of biological origin on the tensile properties of cellulose nanopapers

Cellulose - Cellulose nanopapers provide diverse, strong and lightweight templates prepared entirely from sustainable raw materials, cellulose nanofibers (CNFs). Yet the strength of CNFs has not...     

Porous cellulose microspheres coated in one step with a polydopamine suspension of hydroxyapatite for bone tissue engineering

Cellulose - Deacetylated porous cellulose acetate microspheres (DPCA) modified with hydroxyapatite (HA) penetrated polydopamine (PDA) coating was prepared by a one-step in-situ method and...     

Cellulose/poly(ethylene imine) composites as efficient and reusable adsorbents for heavy metal ions

A series of Cellulose/poly-ethylene imine (PEI) composites were prepared by grafting hyperbranched PEI onto cellulose chains in alkali/urea aqueous solvent system through “one step” method. The SEM results showed that the Cellulose/PEI composite maintained porous structure. The Cellulose/PEI composites were tested as Cu(II) adsorbents through thermodynamics and kinetics study. The adsorption process followed pseudo-second-order kinetics equation. The adsorption isotherms could be described by both Langmuir and Freundlich isotherm models. The maximum adsorption amount was calculated to be 285.7 mg/g. The composites showed good stability so that they could be used in a wide range of pH and temperature. Besides, the Cu(II) loaded Cellulose/PEI composite could also be easily regenerated by dilute sulfuric acid and still keep a major adsorption capacity. Finally, the adsorption capacities of Celluloes/PEI composite towards other metal ions, such as Zn(II), Ni(II), Cr(III) and Pb(II), were also demonstrated. It will be a new high-performance and environmental friendly material for sewage disposal and metal pollution treatment with promising developmental potential.     

Cellulose-synthesizing machinery in bacteria

Cellulose - Cellulose is produced by all plants and a number of other organisms, including bacteria. The most representative cellulose-producing bacterial species is Gluconacetobacter xylinus, an...     

N-Methylmorpholine-N-oxide (NMMO): hazards in practice and pitfalls in theory

Cellulose - The hazards of handling N-methylmorpholine-N-oxide (NMMO) cannot be described often enough, although it is a rather common (co-)solvent for cellulose. Inaccuracies in the literature...     

Study on transport of molecules in gel by surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

Cellulose - Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS)-based biosensors have recently been extensively developed because of their high sensitivity and nondestructive nature. Conventional SERS...     

Physical characteristics and cell-adhesive properties of in vivo fabricated bacterial cellulose/hyaluronan nanocomposites

Cellulose - BC membranes (pellicles) generated by Gluconacetobacter hansenii (G. hansenii) are promising biomaterials owing to their outstanding biocompatible properties. Recently, specific demands...     

Preparation of cross-linking PVA copolymer modified by DAAM/ADH and application in paper surface sizing

Cellulose - Herein, a novel modified polyvinyl alcohol(DA-IPVA) used as sizing agent was prepared by using diacetone acrylamide(DAAM)/adipic dihydrazide(ADH) as graft monomer and...     

Synthesis of poly (3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)/sulfonated cellulose composites in different systems for the electrochemical sensing of paracetamol

Cellulose - In this paper, composites of poly (3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) and sulfonated cellulose (SC) were prepared by oxidative polymerization both in CHCl3 and H2O using different SC...     

Cellulose nanocrystal treatment of aligned short hemp fibre mats for reinforcement in polypropylene matrix composites

Cellulose - Oriented short hemp fibre mats were produced using dynamic sheet forming (DSF) incorporating cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) to improve their integrity. The CNCs were found to act as a...     

Transesterification reaction and application in anti-wrinkle finishing of cotton fabrics

Cellulose - Citric acid (CA) can impart good anti-wrinkle properties to treated cotton fabrics, but it also causes significant strength loss and yellowing. In this paper, Trimethyl citrate was...     

Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy as a novel tool for crystallographic analysis in cellulose: the potentiality of being a new standard for evaluating crystallinity

Cellulose - Given that terahertz (THz) radiation responds to intermolecular forces such as hydrogen bonds, THz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) has expanded possibilities in cellulose research....