ArticleNano letters2023
Structure of Polymer-Grafted Nanocellulose in the Colloidal Dispersion System.
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- High-Resolution AFM Visualization of Nanocellulose Surface Grafting with Small Molecules.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2025Article
- Designing for Degradation: Transient Devices Enabled by (Nano)Cellulose.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2025Review
- Uniform elementary fibrils in diverse plant cell walls.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Morphological Changes of Polymer-Grafted Nanocellulose during a Drying Process.Biomacromolecules · 2023Article
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Abstract
Clarifying the primary structure of nanomaterials is invaluable to understand how the nanostructures lead to macroscopic material functions. Nanocellulose is attracting attention as a sustainable building block in materials science. The surface of nanocellulose is often chemically modified by polymer grafting to tune the material properties, such as the viscoelastic properties in rheology modifiers and the reinforcement effect in composites. However, the structure, such as molecular conformation of the grafted polymer and the twist of the core nanocellulose, is not well understood. Here, we investigated the structure of polymer-grafted nanocellulose in the colloidal dispersion system by combining small-angle X-ray scattering measurement and all-atom molecular dynamics simulation. We demonstrated formation of the polymer brush layer on the nanocellulose surface in solvents, which explains the excellent colloidal stability. We also found that twisting of the nanocellulose in the core is suppressed by the existence of the polymer brush layer.
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