Nanocelluloses: Emerging Building Blocks for Renewable Materials

Polysaccharide Building Blocks: A Sustainable Approach to the Development of Renewable Biomaterials

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 105-125

  Habibi, Youssef ^a   Lucia, Lucian A ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Nanocelluloses, building blocks for renewables; NFC developing pretreatment, NFC morphology; Novel applications in nanocomposite field

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EID: 84886550598     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118229484.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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