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ReviewAdvanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)2021

Functional Materials from Nanocellulose: Utilizing Structure-Property Relationships in Bottom-Up Fabrication.

Kevin De France, Zhihui Zeng, Tingting Wu, Gustav Nyström

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Review in Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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37 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Kevin De FranceLaboratory for Cellulose and Wood Materials, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa), Überlandstrasse 129, Dübendorf, 8600, Switzerland.
Zhihui ZengLaboratory for Cellulose and Wood Materials, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa), Überlandstrasse 129, Dübendorf, 8600, Switzerland.
Tingting WuLaboratory for Cellulose and Wood Materials, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa), Überlandstrasse 129, Dübendorf, 8600, Switzerland.
Gustav NyströmLaboratory for Cellulose and Wood Materials, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa), Überlandstrasse 129, Dübendorf, 8600, Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2739-3222

Funding

China Scholarship Council FellowshipNatural Science and Engineering Research Council of CanadaNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It is inherently challenging to recapitulate the precise hierarchical architectures found throughout nature (such as in wood, antler, bone, and silk) using synthetic bottom-up fabrication strategies. However, as a renewable and naturally sourced nanoscale building block, nanocellulose-both cellulose nanocrystals and cellulose nanofibrils-has gained significant research interest within this area. Altogether, the intrinsic shape anisotropy, surface charge/chemistry, and mechanical/rheological properties are some of the critical material properties leading to advanced structure-based functionality within nanocellulose-based bottom-up fabricated materials. Herein, the organization of nanocellulose into biomimetic-aligned, porous, and fibrous materials through a variety of fabrication techniques is presented. Moreover, sophisticated material structuring arising from both the alignment of nanocellulose and via specific process-induced methods is covered. In particular, design rules based on the underlying fundamental properties of nanocellulose are established and discussed as related to their influence on material assembly and resulting structure/function. Finally, key advancements and critical challenges within the field are highlighted, paving the way for the fabrication of truly advanced materials from nanocellulose.

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biopolymer aerogelscellulose nanocrystalscellulose nanofibrilsself-assemblystructured biomaterials

Identifiers

PMID32267033
PMCPMC11468739

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