A major unsolved problem in cellulose structure is the polarity of adjacent chains of cellulose in the microfibrils, namely, the "parallel or antiparallel" problem. This issue is closely related to the possibility of a folded-chain structure and to the mechanism of cellulose biosynthesis. The prevai
Silver labeling of the reducing ends of bacterial cellulose
β Scribed by Shigenori Kuga; R. Malcolm Brown Jr.
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1988
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 518 KB
- Volume
- 180
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-6215
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β¦ Synopsis
The unidirectional ("parallel") orientation of glucan molecules in crystalline native cellulose (cellulose I) has been claimed to be highly likely by studies of X-ray diffraction and molecular packing analyses based on data with Valonia cellulose' ,' . Although the conclusion has been taken almost as proven, partly because of the
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