Nanocellulose consisting of crystalline cellulose nanoparticles has high potential to serve
as a building block for bio-based functional materials. The intrinsic chirality of cellulose …

The sustainable development of engineering biocomposites has been limited due to a lack
of bio‐based monomers combining favorable processing with high performance. Here, the …

Widespread concerns over the impact of human activity on the environment have resulted in
a desire to replace artificial functional materials with naturally derived alternatives. As such, …

The complexity of plant cell walls on different hierarchical levels still impedes the detailed
understanding of biosynthetic pathways, interferes with processing in industry and finally limits …

Drying cellulosic materials from their water-swollen state can collapse their ultrastructure
and alter their macroscopic material properties such as mechanical strength and water-…

Using light to manipulate materials into desired states is one of the goals in condensed
matter physics, since light control can provide ultrafast and environmentally friendly photonics …

Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) were produced from eucalyptus wood pulp using three
different methods: (i) classical sulphuric acid hydrolysis (CN-I), (ii) acid hydrolysis of cellulose …

Mammalian gut microbiota are integral to host health. However, how this association began
remains unclear. We show that in basal chordates the gut space is radially …

We report the mechanical strength of native chitin nanofibrils. Highly crystalline α-chitin
nanofibrils were purified from filaments produced by a microalgae Phaeocystis globosa, and two …

As with many other biosourced colloids, chitin nanocrystals (ChNCs) can form liquid crystalline
phases with chiral nematic ordering. In this work, we demonstrate that it is possible to …