Green and low-cost production of thermally stable and carboxylated cellulose nanocrystals and nanofibrils using highly recyclable dicarboxylic acids

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn 2017, Issue 119, 2017, Pages

  Bian, Huiyang ^a,c   Chen, Liheng ^b,c   Wang, Ruibin ^b,c   Zhu, Junyong ^c  

^a NANJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c FOREST PRODUCTS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acid recovery; Cellulose nanocrystals (CNC); Cellulose nanofibrils (CNF); Cellulose nanomaterials; Chemistry; Di carboxylic acid hydrolysis; Dispersion; Issue 119; Surface carboxylation; Thermal stability

Indexed keywords

DICARBOXYLIC ACID; NANOPARTICLE; OXIDIZED CELLULOSE;

CHEMISTRY; GREEN CHEMISTRY; HYDROLYSIS; RECYCLING;

CELLULOSE, OXIDIZED; DICARBOXYLIC ACIDS; GREEN CHEMISTRY TECHNOLOGY; HYDROLYSIS; NANOPARTICLES; RECYCLING;

EID: 85013218716     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/55079     Document Type: Article

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