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The Paper Pulp Industry: From the Production of Cellulose Fibers to Second Generation Integrated Biorefinery
The paper pulp industry can be considered as the biggest actor in wood chemistry, the processes developped in its mills having been working as...
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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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Ecological, flexible and transparent cellulose-based substrates without post-production treatment for organic electronic devices
In the past few decades, technological advances have aroused the interest of industries and consumers for flexible electronic devices. However, the...
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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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Hierarchical Vegetal Fiber Reinforced Composites
Sustainability has become the prime focus nowadays for scientific strategies; hence researchers are keen on develo** more sustainable materials...
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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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Bacterial cellulose production by a strain of Komagataeibacter rhaeticus isolated from residual loquat
AbstractIn this study, loquat extract was selected as a promising substrate for bacterial cellulose (BC) production. A new BC-producing bacterial...
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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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Chemical and Biological Delignification Treatments from Blue Agave and Sorghum By-Products to Obtain Cellulose Nanocrystals
AbstractCellulose was obtained from blue agave bagasse fiber (ABF) and sorghum bagasse fiber (SBF) using the Phanerochaete chrysosporium TF9 strain...
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Wood and Mineral Byproducts Soft Activated as Adsorbents to Liquid-Phase Application
Human activities generate byproducts and wastes that need to be valorised. This paper presents a comparative study on the valorisation of different...
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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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Advanced Applications of Lignocellulosic Fibers and Mycelium-Based Composites for a Sustainable World
Humanity's use of natural fibers dates back to prehistoric times, being essential materials for the protection and production of utensils and tools....
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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...
