Hydrodynamic alignment and assembly of nanofibrils resulting in strong cellulose filaments

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Håkansson, Karl M O ^a   Fall, Andreas B ^a   Lundell, Fredrik ^a   Yu, Shun ^b   Krywka, Christina ^c,d   Roth, Stephan V ^b   Santoro, Gonzalo ^b   Kvick, Mathias ^a   Prahl Wittberg, Lisa ^a   Wågberg, Lars ^a   Söderberg, L Daniel ^a,e  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b DESY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e INNVENTIA AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULOSE; BIOMATERIAL; NANOFIBER; NANOMATERIAL; WATER;

CELLULOSE; GEL; HOMOGENEITY; HYDRODYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECELERATION; DISPERSION; FIBER; FLOW RATE; GELATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; PHASE TRANSITION; RADIATION SCATTERING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TENSILE STRENGTH; VELOCITY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; WOOD;

BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CELLULOSE; HYDRODYNAMICS; NANOFIBERS; NANOSTRUCTURES; WATER; WOOD;

EID: 84901950560     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5018     Document Type: Article

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