TARGETED DISRUPTION OF HYDROXYL CHEMISTRY AND CRYSTALLINITY IN NATURAL FIBERS FOR THE ISOLATION OF CELLULOSE NANO-FIBERS VIA ENZYMATIC TREATMENT
Cellulose is the Earth’s most abundant biopolymer. Exploiting its environmentally friendly attributes such as biodegradability, renewability, and high specific strength properties are limited by our inability to isolate them from the secondary cell wall in an economical manner. Intermolecular and in...
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North Carolina State University
2011-04-01
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| Online Access: | http://www.ncsu.edu/bioresources/BioRes_06/BioRes_06_2_1242_Janardhnan_S_Disrup_OH_Cryst_Isol_Nanocell_Enz_Treat_1391.pdf |