Nanocellulose: From Biomass to Advanced Applications
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Nanotechnology and Applied Nanosciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 August 2023) | Viewed by 3293
Special Issue Editors
Interests: AOPs; water treatment; visible light photocatalysis; catalytic ozonation; nanostructured materials; environmental chemistry of metals and metal oxides; materials science and engineering; reactive materials
Interests: AOPs; heterogeneous catalysis; chromatography; understanding the degradation pathway of POPs in effluents; nanostructured materials; environmental chemistry of sustainable materials; separation processes
Special Issue Information
Nanocellulose (NC), cellulose in nanostructures, has been proved to be one of the most prominent green materials of modern times because of its remarkable features, including recyclability, biocompatibility, low-risk toxicity, and tunable surface properties. Currently, NC-based materials from sourcing, synthesis, and surface modification governed by its structural and physicochemical features, including excellent mechanical properties and biocompatibility, are applied for functional paper, optoelectronics, antibacterial coatings, packaging, mechanically reinforced polymer composites, tissue scaffolds, drug delivery, biosensors, energy storage, catalysis, and environmental remediation. With increasing environmental and ecological concerns due to the use of petroleum-based chemicals and products, the synthesis of sustainable materials from natural resources such as NCs is of great public value. This Special Issue, “New Application of Nanocellulose,” aims to address the recent advances and emerging uses of NCs in the fabrication of nanocomposites (including those based on polymers, metals, metal oxides, and carbon), suitable components to form inks for 3D printing, Pickering emulsifiers (emulsion stabilized by solid particles), effluent treatment (removal of toxic heavy metal ions and organic pollutants), food packaging and biomedical applications (drug delivery, repairing connective tissue and for constructing contact lenses and protective barriers). Finally, the challenges and opportunities of NCs-based emerging materials.
Dr. Vinod Kumar Vadivel
Dr. Lakshmi Prasanna Vaddadi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cellulose
- nanocellulose
- nanocrystalline cellulose
- nanostructured materials
- bacterial cellulose
- adsorption
- biomass
- aerogels
- membranes
- 3D printers
- biomedical application
- food packaging
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