Isolation of cellulose nanofibrils from Triodia pungens via different mechanical methods

Cellulose

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 2483-2498

  Amiralian, Nasim ^a   Annamalai, Pratheep K ^a   Memmott, Paul ^a   Martin, Darren J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ball milling and ultra sonication; Cellulose nanofibrils (CNF); Homogenisation; Nanofibrillated cellulose (NFC); Spinifex; Triodia pungens

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; BALL MILLING; BLEACHED PULP; BLEACHING; CELLULOSE; CLEANING; DELIGNIFICATION; HOMOGENIZATION METHOD; MILLING (MACHINING); THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

CELLULOSE NANOFIBRILS; NANOFIBRILLATED CELLULOSE (NFC); SPINIFEX; TRIODIA PUNGENS; ULTRA-SONICATION;

NANOFIBERS;

EID: 84937976674     PISSN: 09690239     EISSN: 1572882X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10570-015-0688-x     Document Type: Article

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