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Isolation of cellulose microfibers and nanofibers by mechanical fibrillation in a water-free solvent
Cellulose from vegetable sources is the most abundant biopolymer on earth. In plants, cellulose is a reinforcement element that conforms to a...
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Vegetal and Microbial Sources of Natural Additives and Their Food Applications
The new trends in the food industry, marked by the behavior of markets and consumers, are oriented towards obtaining and incorporating natural...
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Fabrication of regenerated cellulose fibers using phosphoric acid with hydrogen peroxide treated wheat straw in a DMAc/LiCl solvent system
Regenerated cellulose fibers (RCFs) are widely used biodegradable and eco-friendly materials made from woody biomass that can replace synthetic...
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Thermomechanical Characterization of Oleogels Elaborated with a Low Molecular Weight Ethyl Cellulose and Monoglycerides
The interaction between a low molecular weight (i.e., 19 kDa) ethyl cellulose (EC) and a commercial monoglyceride (MGc) in the development of EC-MGc...
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Green Bionanocomposites Based on Polyhydroxybutyrate and Filled with Cellulose Nanocrystals: Melting Processing and Characterization
This article contributes to the understanding of biobased and biodegradable polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) bionanocomposites melt processed by...
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Thermogravimetric investigation on co-combustion characteristics and kinetics of antibiotic filter residue and vegetal biomass
Antibiotic filter residue (AFR) is a typical deep-utilized biomass waste residue with high yield, which is difficult to burn be individually utilized...
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Oleogels Produced by Direct Methods Using as Gelator: Fatty Acids (Including 12-HSA), Fatty Alcohols, Ceramides, Lecithins, Sterols, Cellulose Fibers, and Fumed Silica
Oleogels offer a possibility to replace conventional saturated fats with a healthier alternative by entrap** liquid edible oils in a 3D-network...
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Bacterial cellulose from mother of vinegar loaded with silver nanoparticles as an effective antiseptic for wound-healing: antibacterial activity against Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli
Bacterial cellulose (BC) has gained attention in recent years due to its high purity and multiple applications in the biomedical and pharmaceutical...
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Synthesis and characterization of curcumin/MMT-clay-treated bacterial cellulose as an antistatic and ultraviolet-resistive bioscaffold
In modern era, natural and biodegradable polymer matrices have gained more attention in order to replace harmful materials that cause environmental...
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A low-cost environmentally friendly approach to isolate lignin containing micro and nanofibrillated cellulose from Eucalyptus globulus bark by steam explosion
Micro- and Nano-Fibrillated Cellulose (MNFC) have gained increasing attention due to their remarkable properties, but their production usually...
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Furfuryl alcohol/tung oil matrix-based composites reinforced with bacterial cellulose fibres
Polymeric materials have drastically changed the society in the last century. However, their non-renewable origin, together with their indiscriminate...
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Nutritional Supplementation with Amino Acids on Bacterial Cellulose Production by Komagataeibacter intermedius: Effect Analysis and Application of Response Surface Methodology
Bacterial cellulose (BC) is a biopolymer mainly produced by acetic acid bacteria (AAB) that has several applications in the medical, pharmaceutical,...
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Preparation and characterization of bionanocomposite films based on wheat starch and reinforced with cellulose nanocrystals
In recent times, the attention of scientific community has been focusing on the replacement of petroleum-based polymers by others more...
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Effect of overlap** cellulose nanofibrils and nanoclay layers on mechanical and barrier properties of spray-coated papers
This work evaluates the effect of spray-coating papers using cellulose nanofibrils (CNFs) and nanoclay (NC) on the mechanical and barrier properties...
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Organic Materials
The cultural heritage has an enormous variety of organic materials (paper, leather, furniture, textiles, pigments, bindings, varnishes, …). This...
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Use of Ricinus communis shredded material as filler in rotational molded parts to improve the bio-disintegration behavior
This paper focuses on the use of castor oil plant ( Ricinus communis ) as filler in rotomolded parts using polyethylene (PE) and polylactic acid (PLA)...
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Microbial Conversion of Biomass
Microbial conversion of biomass is a natural process of transformation of biological resources into energy and bioproducts. Lignocellulosic and...
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Thermal, Structural and Morphological Studies of Cellulose and Cellulose Nanofibers Extracted from Bitter Watermelon of the Cucurbitaceae Family
This work presents a new way to prepare and isolate nanometric cellulose fibrils as extracted from Citrullus Colocynthis (Cc) seeds. The nanofibrils...
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On the toxicity of cellulose nanocrystals and nanofibrils in animal and cellular models
AbstractThe need for reaching environmental sustainability encourages research on new cellulose-based materials for a broad range of applications...
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Valorization of Passion Fruit Stalk by the Preparation of Cellulose Nanofibers and Immobilization of Trypsin
Fibers from passion fruit stalks were first recovered with a pul** and bleaching process. Two mechanical treatments were further applied to the...