Cellulosic Bionanocomposites: A Review of Preparation, Properties and Applications

By Gilberto de Freitas Siqueira, J. Bras, A. Dufresne. 2010

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Cellulose is the most abundant biomass material in nature. Extracted from natural fibers, its hierarchical and multi-level organization allows different kinds of nanoscaled cellulosic fillers—called cellulose nanocrystals or microfibrillated cellulose (MFC)—to be obtained. Recently, such cellulose nanoparticles have been the focus of an exponentially increasing number of works or reviews devoted to understanding such materials and their applications. Major studies over the last decades have shown that cellulose nanoparticles could be used as fillers to improve mechanical and barrier properties of biocomposites. Their use for industrial packaging is being investigated, with continuous studies to find innovative solutions for efficient and sustainable systems. Processing is more and more important and different systems are detailed in this paper depending on the polymer solubility, i.e., (i) hydrosoluble systems, (ii) non-hydrosoluble systems, and (iii) emulsion systems. This paper intends to give a clear overview of cellulose nanoparticles reinforced composites with more than 150 references by describing their preparation, characterization, properties and applications.

Subfields: Biomaterials

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1. A. Dufresne
2. J. Bras
3. Kristiina Oksman
4. Sabu Thomas
5. Ning Lin
6. I. Ahmad
7. H. Kargarzadeh
8. Jin Huang

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• Influence of drying method on the material properties of nanocellulose I: thermostability and crystallinity (2013, background): “Nanocellulose, as a new generation of nano-scale material from forest products, has received considerable attention (Wegner and Jones 2006; Eichhorn et al. 2010; Habibi et al. 2010; Siqueira et al. 2010; Moon et al. 2011; Klemm et al. 2011).”
• Starch/PVA-based nanocomposites reinforced with bamboo nanofibrils (2015, background): “…including drugs (Villanova et al., 2011), dietary food (Okiyama et al., 1993), special papers (Nguyen and Tan, 2009), reinforcement in packaging/films (Siro and Plackett, 2010; Syverud et al., 2011) and polymeric matrices (Orts et al., 2005; Azizi Samir et al., 2005; Siqueira et al., 2010).”