Advanced Preparation and Application of Cellulose: 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

Today’s world is witnessing growing concern for the environment as a result of global warming, energy crises, and waste generation. The growing demand for products with a low environmental impact has led the scientific community to focus to a greater extent on sustainable and renewable materials. In this context and due to its abundant availability from various sources, cellulose has emerged as one of the most prominent candidates for sustainable use across applications in different fields,. In particular, nanocellulose presents outstanding characteristics, such as renewability, a high aspect ratio, good mechanical properties, excellent biocompatibility, hydrogen bonding capacity, reinforcing potential, and degradability.

The scope of this Special Issue is to report recent achievements in the advanced preparation and emerging applications of cellulose-based materials. In particular, topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Healthcare;
• Water purification;
• Energy storage;
• Filtration;
• The environment;
• Automotive;
• Aerospace;
• Defense;
• Sensors;
• Adhesives;
• Packaging;
• Food;
• Construction.

Dr. Marta Fernandes
Dr. Jorge Padrão
Guest Editors

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• cellulose
• nanocellulose
• energy storage
• water purification
• packaging
• food
• filtration

• Advanced Preparation and Application of Cellulose in Polymers (13 articles)