Glucomannan composite films with cellulose nanowhiskers

Cellulose

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 69-81

  Mikkonen, Kirsi S ^a   Mathew, Aji P ^b   Pirkkalainen, Kari ^a   Serimaa, Ritva ^a   Xu, Chunlin ^c,d   Willför, Stefan ^c   Oksman, Kristiina ^b   Tenkanen, Maija ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^d ALBANOVA UNIVERSITY CENTER   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cellulose nanowhiskers; Composites; Films; Konjac glucomannan; Spruce galactoglucomannans

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITES; DEGREE OF CRYSTALLINITY; FILM STRUCTURE; GLUCOMANNAN; KONJAC GLUCOMANNAN; OPTICAL MICROSCOPES; ROD-LIKE STRUCTURES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; THERMAL PROPERTIES;

CELLULOSE; CELLULOSE FILMS; CRYSTAL WHISKERS; GLYCEROL; MICROSCOPES; NANOWHISKERS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TENSILE STRENGTH; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

COMPOSITE FILMS;

CELLULOSE FILM; COMPOSITES; CRYSTALS; GALACTOGLUCOMANNANS; GLYCEROL; MICROSCOPES; MONOLAYERS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TENSILE STRENGTH; THERMAL PROPERTIES;

CELLULOSIC FIBER; COMPOSITE; CRYSTALLINITY; FILM; TENSILE PROPERTY; THERMAL PROPERTY; WHISKER;

EID: 77952877630     PISSN: 09690239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10570-009-9380-3     Document Type: Article

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