Nanocellulose-based materials for water purification

Nanomaterials

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Voisin, Hugo ^a   Bergström, Lennart ^a   Liu, Peng ^a   Mathew, Aji P ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Cellulose nanocrystals; Cellulose nanofibers; Membranes; Water purification

Indexed keywords

EID: 85014728092     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20794991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/nano7030057     Document Type: Review

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