Surface grafting of microfibrillated cellulose with poly(e-caprolactone) - Synthesis and characterization

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Cellulose-Based Bio- and Nanocomposites: A Review (2011, background): “suggested that poly(caprolactone) chains might be conjugated onto nanocrystalline cellulose for such a purpose [200].”
Nanofibrillated cellulose: surface modification and potential applications (2013, methodology): “Reprinted from [103], Copyright 2008, with permission from Elsevier”
State of the Art Manufacturing and Engineering of Nanocellulose: A Review of Available Data and Industrial Applications (2013, methodology): “Polymer Grafting The methods for polymer grafting onto NCC surface are based on two approaches, named “grafting-onto” and “grafting-from” [66,149,156-158].”
Cellulosic Bionanocomposites: A Review of Preparation, Properties and Applications (2010, methodology): “[128] modified the surface of MFC extracted from wood pulp by grafting poly(ε-caprolactone) via ring-opening polymerization.”
Review of the recent developments in cellulose nanocomposite processing (2016, background): “A master-batch approach, where a polymer is used as a carrier for nanocellulose, has been used by several researchers and involves PVOH [11], PEO [84], PLA [14,39,71,85], PVA [86–88], PA6 [75], alginate [89], NR [90,91] and PCL [92].”