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ArticleAngewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)2021

Recovery of the Irreversible Crystallinity of Nanocellulose by Crystallite Fusion: A Strategy for Achieving Efficient Energy Transfers in Sustainable Biopolymer Skeletons*.

Kazuho Daicho, Kayoko Kobayashi, Shuji Fujisawa, Tsuguyuki Saito

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Article in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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  9. Water as an Intrinsic Structural Element in Cellulose Fibril Aggregates.The journal of physical chemistry letters · 2022
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4 authors.

Kazuho DaichoDepartment of Biomaterial Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8657, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-4203-2257
Kayoko KobayashiDivision of Forest and Biomaterials Science, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-0459-7900
Shuji FujisawaDepartment of Biomaterial Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8657, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-5221-6781
Tsuguyuki SaitoDepartment of Biomaterial Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8657, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-1073-6663

Funding

japan science and technology agency JPMJMI17EDjapan society for the promotion of science 18K14501japan society for the promotion of science 20J12793japan society for the promotion of science 20K15567japan society for the promotion of science 21H04733
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Crystallites form a grain boundary or the inter-crystallite interface. A grain boundary is a structural defect that hinders the efficient directional transfer of mechanical stress or thermal phonons in crystal aggregates. We observed that grain boundaries within an aggregate of crystalline cellulose nanofibers (CNFs) were crystallized by enhancing their inter-crystallite interactions; multiple crystallites were coupled into single fusion crystals, without passing through a melting or dissolving state. Accordingly, the lowered crystallinity of CNFs, which has been considered irreversible, was recovered, and the thermal energy transfer in the aggregate was significantly improved. Other nanofibrous crystallites of chitin also showed a similar fusion phenomenon by enhancing the inter-crystallite interactions. Such crystallite fusion may naturally occur in biological structures with network skeletons of aggregated fibrillar crystallites having mechanical or thermal functions.

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cellulose nanofiberschitincrystallinityfusiongrain boundaries

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