Health and environmental safety aspects of friction grinding and spray drying of microfibrillated cellulose

By Jari Vartiainen, T. Pöhler, Kristiina Sirola, Lea Pylkkänen, H. Alenius, J. Hokkinen, U. Tapper, Panu Lahtinen, A. Kapanen, K. Putkisto and 4 more. 2011

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Subfields: Biomaterials, Materials Chemistry

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In Biomaterials

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3. P. Mutjé
4. L. Piergiovanni
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Citations in the corpus

• A review on nanocellulosic fibres as new material for sustainable packaging: Process and applications (2016, methodology): “Microgrinding Low amount of energy consumption.”
• Nanocellulose as a novel nanostructured adsorbent for environmental remediation: a review (2017, background): “In addition, as it has been proved that nanocellulose can be classified as a non-toxic material (Vartiainen et al. 2011), 100% biodegradable and having no side effects on the environment, the use of nanocellulose eliminates the safety concerns generally encountered for mineral and carbon…”
• A Review of Natural Fiber Reinforced Poly(Vinyl Alcohol) Based Composites: Application and Opportunity (2015, background): “No worrying effects on environment and life are noticed [78–81].”
• The Potential of NanoCellulose in the Packaging Field: A Review (2015, background): “Meanwhile, Vartiainen et al.223 evaluated the effect of different processes on the possible toxicity risk of CNC.”
• Nanocellulose in biomedicine: Current status and future prospect (2014, background): “Regarding the toxicity of cellulose nanofibrils, no inflammatory effects or cytotoxicity on mouse and human macrophages, and only low acute environmental toxicity (assessed with kinetic luminescent bacteria test) have been reported [47].”
• Key role of the hemicellulose content and the cell morphology on the nanofibrillation effectiveness of cellulose pulps (2013, background): “This phenomenon, which refers to the irreversible loss in swelling capacity that takes place in lignocellulosic materials upon drying (Weise 1998) was shown to be related to the content of hemicellulose in the pulp and can even vanish, when a high portion of hemicellulose is left in the fibres…”