Cellulose: Structure and properties

Advances in Polymer Science

Volumn 271, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-52

  Heinze, Thomas ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amino cellulose; Cellulose; Nanostructuring; Reactivity; Solubility; Structure; Supramolecular architecture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84959351387     PISSN: 00653195     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/12_2015_319     Document Type: Article

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