Nanocellulose: From Nature to High Performance Tailored Materials

✍ Scribed by Alain Dufresne

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 650
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This specialist monograph provides an overview of the recent research on the fundamental and applied properties of nanoparticles extracted from cellulose, the most abundant polymer on the planet and an ubiquitous essential renewable resource. Given the rapid advances in the field and the high level of interest within the scientific and industrial communities, this revised and updated second edition expands the broad overview of recent research and will be required reading for all those working with nanocellulose in the life sciences and bio-based applications, biological, chemical and agricultural engineering, organic chemistry and materials science. It combines a general introduction to cellulose and basic techniques with more advanced chapters on specific properties, applications and current scientific developments of nanocellulose. The book profits from the author’s extensive knowledge of cellulose nanocomposite materials.

• Expands overview on techniques for preparation and characterization of nanocellulose.
• Extensive update of content and bibliography to include surge in references in recent years.
• Insights on thermal, mechanical, barrier and swelling properties.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Contents
1. Cellulose and potential reinforcement
2. Preparation of microfibrillated cellulose
3. Preparation of cellulose nanocrystals
4. Bacterial cellulose
5. Chemical modification of nanocellulose
6. Rheological behavior of nanocellulose suspensions and self-assembly
7. Processing of nanocellulose-based materials
8. Thermal properties
9. Mechanical properties of nanocellulose-based nanocomposites
10. Swelling and barrier properties
11. Other polysaccharide nanocrystals
12. Conclusions, applications and likely future trends
Index