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ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2016 Oct 19;8(41):28086-28095. doi: 10.1021/acsami.6b09852. Epub 2016 Oct 10.

Highly Modified Cellulose Nanocrystals and Formation of Epoxy-Nanocrystalline Cellulose (CNC) Nanocomposites.

ACS applied materials & interfaces

Eldho Abraham, Doron Kam, Yuval Nevo, Rikard Slattegard, Amit Rivkin, Shaul Lapidot, Oded Shoseyov

Affiliations

  1. R.H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics and The Harvey M. Krueger Family Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem , Jerusalem 91904, Israel.
  2. Melodea Ltd, Faculty of Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem , Rehovot 76100, Israel.

PMID: 27704756 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b09852

Abstract

This work presents an environmentally friendly, iodine-catalyzed chemical modification method to generate highly hydrophobic, optically active nanocrystalline cellulose (CNC). The high degree of ester substitution (DS = 2.18), hydrophobicity, crystalline behavior, and optical activity of the generated acetylated CNC (Ac-CNC) were quantified by TEM, FTIR, solid

Keywords: birefringence; epoxy; esterification; hydrophobic CNC; nanocomposite

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