Functionalized cellulose nanocrystals as biobased nucleation agents in poly(l-lactide) (PLLA) – Crystallization and mechanical property effects

By Aihua Pei, Qi Zhou, L. Berglund. 2010

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Influence of chemical surface modification of cellulose nanowhiskers on thermal, mechanical, and barrier properties of poly(lactide) based bionanocomposites (2013, background): “The nucleating efficiency of CNW-ICN was equal to the efficiency of talc, which is a very widely used nucleating material for PLA [45,46,51,53–55] and to the efficiency of silylated CNW [42].”
Advances in cellulose nanomaterials (2018, background): “Over the last several years, similar reaction mechanisms have been employed in other studies to introduce silane groups on the cellulose surface, with the goal of improving the mechanical properties of polymers (Pei et al. 2010), achieving antimicrobial activity (Saini et al.”
Extraction of Cellulose Nanocrystals from Phormium tenax Fibres (2013, background): “3a) shows that most of cellulose nanocrystals obtained from the hydrolysis of pre-treated phormium fibres, appear individualized with the previously reported acicular structure ranged from 100 to 200 nm in length and 15 nm in width [13, 28–30].”
Synergic effect of cellulose and lignin nanostructures in PLA based systems for food antibacterial packaging (2016, unknown): “It has been previously discussed that the incorporation of LNP or CNC would enhance the PLA crystallization ability [12, 36, 46].”