materials cellulose
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Research problems linked to this topic
- commonly accepted serious drawback for cellulose paper is high water susceptibility, making it susceptible to moisture attack.
- Evaluation of defects in heterogeneous materials, such as cellulose-fiber composites, can lead to methods for improving strength.
- Conductive bacterial cellulose (BC) membranes are a fascinating class of lightweight and flexible electrodes for electrochemical energy storage.
- Straw fiber is a waste obtained by jet milling after extracting valuable substances form corn straw through steam explosion-washing-mechanical carding process.
- Lignin is an abundant natural polymer in the biosphere and second only to cellulose; however, it is underutilized and considered a waste.
- The increase of filler content in paper without significantly sacrificing the paper mechanical resistances is of high interest for papermakers.
- One of the main challenges of fiber-based packaging materials is the relatively poor elongation of cellulose under stress, which limits formability and molding in related products.
- Farm products offer a wide range of commodities such as cellulose, starch, rubber, and other materials that are environmentally friendly. Starch, one of the promising natural materials, most abundantly available after cellulose, has been considered a good candidate in thermoplastic technology. The low price and the availability of starch in addition to its very favourable environmental profile, have, in the past 15 years, aroused a renewed interest in starch-based polymers as an attractive alternative to polymers based on petrochemicals.
- Several forms of cellulose nanomaterials, notably cellulose nanocrystals and cellulose nanofibrils, exhibit attractive properties and are potentially useful for a large number of industrial applications.