Harvesting fibrils from bacterial cellulose pellicles and subsequent formation of biodegradable poly-3-hydroxybutyrate nanocomposites

Cellulose

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 4299-4308

  Ruka, Dianne R ^a,b   Simon, George P ^b   Dean, Katherine ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fibres; Mechanical properties; Nanocomposites; Scanning electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

BLENDING; DISPERSIONS; FIBERS; HARVESTING; INJECTION MOLDING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOFIBERS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SONICATION;

BACTERIAL CELLULOSE; CONVENTIONAL POLYMERS; DIFFERENT SOLVENTS; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; FINE DISPERSIONS; POLY-3-HYDROXYBUTYRATE; PROPERTY IMPROVEMENT; REINFORCING COMPONENTS;

CELLULOSE;

EID: 85027944480     PISSN: 09690239     EISSN: 1572882X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10570-014-0415-z     Document Type: Article

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