Mercerization of primary wall cellulose and its implication for the conversion of cellulose I→cellulose II

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Cellulose microfibrils from banana farming residues: isolation and characterization (2007, background): “Cellulose IVI occurs in nature in various plant primary walls (Lai-Kee-Him et al. 2002; Dinand et al. 2002 ).”
Cellulosic Bionanocomposites: A Review of Preparation, Properties and Applications (2010, background): “The current knowledge on the crystallography and biosynthesis of cellulose strongly suggests that the structure of cellulose is made up of parallel chains [25,26], whereas the crystalline structure of cellulose II is”
Advances in cellulose nanomaterials (2018, background): “Normally, this transformation occurs at an NaOH concentration (by weight) of around 17% (Dinand et al. 2002).”
Comparative properties of cellulose nano-crystals from native and mercerized cotton fibers (2012, background): “The properties of the nanocrystals (e.g., shape, length, and diameter) depend on the source of the cellulose and the degradation process (e.g., controlled time and temperature for acid hydrolysis, high-pressure homogenization conditions, etc.) (Lu and Hsieh 2010; Dong et al. 1996).”
Comparative study of cellulosic components isolated from different Eucalyptus species (2018, background): “Likewise, cellulose reactivity is affected by the crystallite size, as in mercerization, where the lateral crystallite size governs the number of lattice units that have to be swollen for sodium hydroxide penetration (Fink et al. 1995; Dinand et al. 2002).”