Nanocellulose from various biomass wastes: Its preparation and potential usages towards the high value-added products

• Main Authors: Sujie Yu, Jianzhong Sun, Yifei Shi, Qianqian Wang, Jian Wu, Jun Liu
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2021-01-01
• Series: Environmental Science and Ecotechnology
• Subjects: Biomass waste; Nanocellulose; Biomedical application; Environmentally-functional materials
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666498420300715

Biomass waste comes from a wide range of sources, such as forest, agricultural, algae wastes, as well as other relevant industrial by-products. It is an important alternative energy source as well as a unique source for various bioproducts applied in many fields. For the past two decades, how to reuse, recycle and best recover various biomass wastes for high value-added bioproducts has received significant attention, which has not only come from various academia communities but also from many civil and medical industries. To summarize one of the cutting-edge technologies applied with nanocellulose biomaterials, this review focused on various preparation methods and strategies to make nanocellulose from diverse biomass wastes and their potential applications in biomedical areas and other promising new fields.