Highly Efficient and Sustainable Preparation of Carboxylic and Thermostable Cellulose Nanocrystals via FeCl3-Catalyzed Innocuous Citric Acid Hydrolysis

By Wei Liu, Haishun Du, Liu Huayu, Xie Hongxiang, Ting Xu, Xiyang Zhao, Y. Liu, Xinyu Zhang, Chen Si. 2020

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As a weak tricarboxylic acid, citric acid (CA) has been proposed for the preparation of cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) due to its innocuous and easily recyclable nature. However, the yield of the ob...

Subfields: Biomaterials, Biomedical Engineering, Plant Science

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