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Cellulose
Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay today account for well over a third of world exports of cellulose, yet this industry only came into existence in the late...
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Surface Modification of Vegetal Fibre
Purpose: The purpose of this review paper was to document a one stop-shop data that could guide researchers and industry players in the selection of...
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Copaiba oil and vegetal tannin as functionalizing agents for açai nanofibril films: valorization of forest wastes from Amazonia
The applicability of cellulose nanofibrils (CNFs) has received attention due to their attractive properties. This study proposes the...
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Application of Vegetal Concrete for Carbon-Neutral Built Environment
To maintain the thermal comfort, buildings consume about 40% of the total energy produced in most of the countries. Thus, they are one of the largest...
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Sustainable Biomedical Applications of Cellulose
Cellulose present in plant cell wall and in some microbes is the most plentiful carbohydrate on earth. Due to its complex structure and...
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Fabrication and Characterization of Oxidizedbacterial Cellulose Membrane as a Potential Hemostatic Dressing
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in using bacterial cellulose for biomedical applications thanks to its higher purity and more...
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Geotechnical Characterization of Vegetal Biomass Ashes Based Materials for Liner Production
This paper aims to evaluate geotechnically, chemically, mechanically, and hydraulically parameters of vegetal-based biomass ashes (VBA) and its soil...
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The vegetal stratum defined the forage bromatology more than the season in seasonal dry tropical forest rangelands
Understand how forage quality in semi-arid rangelands is modified by the botanical composition and climatological factors is essential for the...
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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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Application of Vegetal Concrete for Carbon-Neutral Built Environment
To maintain the thermal comfort, buildings consume about 40% of the total energy produced in most of the countries. Thus, they are one of the largest...
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Influence of bacterial cellulose stabilization on strength characteristics of construction earthen materials
The interest of reinventing raw earth is for the purpose of drastically reducing the environmental impact of the continuous human urban growth. This...
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Influence of PMMA particle size control on the transmittance of PMMA/tempo-oxidized cellulose composites
Cellulose is a class of biopolymers that prominently contributes to develo** lightweight, eco-friendly, and biodegradable plastics. Among them,...
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Comparison of pre-treatments mediated by endoglucanase and TEMPO oxidation for eco-friendly low-cost energy production of cellulose nanofibrils
Specific kinds of enzymes have been used as an eco-friendly pre-treatment for mechanical extraction of cellulose nanofibrils (CNFs) from vegetal...
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Influence of different cellulose/hemicellulose/lignin ratios on the thermal degradation behavior: prediction and optimization
Vegetal fibers can be applied in several areas, from the medical field to the development of new advanced materials. They have a complex chemical...
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Feedstocks, Synthesis, and Characterization of Cellulosic Materials for Advanced Applications with Emphasis on Microcrystalline Cellulose (MCC)
Cellulosic materials find applications in pharmaceutical, food, and cosmetic industry due to their surface, mechanical, and antimicrobial properties....
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Thermodynamic Characterization of Building Thermal Insulating Materials Using Cardboard Wastes and Zea Mays Everta
Building envelope factors have a significant impact on the amount of energy they consume. The thermal performance of the walls is a crucial factor in...
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Polarimetric imaging microscopy for advanced inspection of vegetal tissues
Optical microscopy techniques for plant inspection benefit from the fact that at least one of the multiple properties of light (intensity, phase,...
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Effects of Degradation of Vegetal Fibers on the Mechanical Behavior of Reinforced Sand
This paper presents the results of an experimental program about the behavior and durability of soils reinforced with randomly distributed vegetal...
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Biosynthesized 3D biofilm-based bacterial cellulose nanofibre using Komagataeibacter hansenii NRC9: optimization, production and characterizations
A bacterial cellulose (BC) strain was isolated from fermented grape juice. BC was confirmed using molecular identification with partial sequencing of...
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Linear unmixing protocol for hyperspectral image fusion analysis applied to a case study of vegetal tissues
Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) is a useful non-invasive technique that offers spatial and chemical information of samples. Often, different HSI...
