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ArticlePolymers2021

Recycling Waste Cotton Cloths for the Isolation of Cellulose Nanocrystals: A Sustainable Approach.

Siti Hajar Mohamed, Md Sohrab Hossain, Mohamad Haafiz Mohamad Kassim, Mardiana Idayu Ahmad, Fatehah Mohd Omar, Venugopal Balakrishnan, Muzafar Zulkifli, Ahmad Naim Ahmad Yahaya

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Article in Polymers, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Siti Hajar MohamedSchool of Industrial Technology, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang 11800, Malaysia.ORCID 0000-0003-3922-4856
Md Sohrab HossainSchool of Industrial Technology, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang 11800, Malaysia.ORCID 0000-0002-6873-2588
Mohamad Haafiz Mohamad KassimSchool of Industrial Technology, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang 11800, Malaysia.
Mardiana Idayu AhmadSchool of Industrial Technology, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang 11800, Malaysia.ORCID 0000-0003-1412-3119
Fatehah Mohd OmarSchool of Civil Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang 14300, Malaysia.
Venugopal BalakrishnanInstitute for Research in Molecular Medicine (INFORMM), Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang 11800, Malaysia.ORCID 0000-0002-4874-600X
Muzafar ZulkifliUniversiti Kuala Lumpur-Malaysian Institute of Chemical & Bioengineering Technology (UniKL-MICET), Melaka 78000, Malaysia.ORCID 0000-0002-1423-1075
Ahmad Naim Ahmad YahayaUniversiti Kuala Lumpur-Malaysian Institute of Chemical & Bioengineering Technology (UniKL-MICET), Melaka 78000, Malaysia.ORCID 0000-0001-9784-4901

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is an interest in the sustainable utilization of waste cotton cloths because of their enormous volume of generation and high cellulose content. Waste cotton cloths generated are disposed of in a landfill, which causes environmental pollution and leads to the waste of useful resources. In the present study, cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) were isolated from waste cotton cloths collected from a landfill. The waste cotton cloths collected from the landfill were sterilized and cleaned using supercritical CO

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cellulose nanocrystalssolid waste managementsupercritical CO2sustainabilitywaste cotton cloths

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PMID33669623
PMCPMC7922772

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