International Journal of Polymer Science

Recent Advances in Cellulose-Based Materials: Synthesis, Characterization, and Their Applications


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1Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China

2University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

3University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA

4Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

5University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia


Recent Advances in Cellulose-Based Materials: Synthesis, Characterization, and Their Applications

Description

The increasing deficiencies of sustainable energy sources and environmental problems have become serious issues. Cellulose, one of the most abundant polysaccharides and renewable resources on the earth, is biodegradable, biocompatible, and nontoxic in nature. Moreover, cellulose-based materials have been attracting considerable attention and are widely used in environmental protection, water treatment, biomedics, and other fields. Cellulose could be used as an important resource for the transform to bioethanol, biomaterials, and biochemicals. Cellulose-based materials could also be used as carbon source to prepare the carbon materials. As environmentally friendly biomass materials, cellulose-based materials may meet the requirement of energy and environmental fields, inducing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and associated global climate change and increasing the development of sustainability economics.

The performance of cellulose-based materials depends critically on their structure, shape, size, size distribution, and properties. Therefore, development of simple, fast, and low-cost methods and technologies for the synthesis of cellulose-based materials is of great importance for broadening and improving their industrial applications. Obviously, it is of great importance to understand the mechanism and properties of cellulose-based materials. The aim of this issue is to explore the new synthetic methods, characterization analysis techniques, and high value-added applications fields of cellulose-based materials. Moreover, the application of cellulose-based materials for drug delivery and water treatment will be greatly appreciated.

Those original articles and review articles are welcomed, in which researchers expend massive efforts on how to explore more and more excellent synthetic methods and technologies of cellulose materials and try to develop high-value applications in energy, environmental protection, water treatment, biomedics, and other fields.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

  • Cellulose separation from natural resources and its characterization
  • New synthesis and characterization methods for cellulose materials, such as films, hydrogels, aerogel, and carbon aerogels
  • Synthesis and applications of carbon materials from cellulose materials
  • Applications of cellulose-based materials for drug delivery and water treatment

Articles

  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2016
  • - Article ID 8730573
  • - Editorial

Recent Advances in Cellulose-Based Materials: Synthesis, Characterization, and Their Applications

Xue-Ming Zhang | Ming-Guo Ma | ... | Yatimah Alias
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2016
  • - Article ID 6280581
  • - Research Article

Application of CMC as Thickener on Nanoemulsions Based on Olive Oil: Physical Properties and Stability

C. Arancibia | R. Navarro-Lisboa | ... | S. Matiacevich
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2016
  • - Article ID 2634104
  • - Research Article

Deposition of Ibuprofen Crystals on Hydroxypropyl Cellulose/Polyacrylamide Gel: Experimental and Mathematic Modeling Releasing

Claudia Alicia Castillo-Miranda | Ana Beatriz Morales-Cepeda | ... | Hugo De Alva-Salazar
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2016
  • - Article ID 9425358
  • - Research Article

Bacteriostatic Substrate by Conductivity Method and Electric Spark Discharge Method Combined with Electrospinning for Silver Dressing

Kuo-Hsiung Tseng | Chaur-Yang Chang | ... | Ya-Lan Tang
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2016
  • - Article ID 2361284
  • - Research Article

Reaction Behavior of Cellulose in the Homogeneous Esterification of Bagasse Modified with Phthalic Anhydride in Ionic Liquid 1-Allyl-3-methylimidazium Chloride

Hui-Hui Wang | Xue-Qin Zhang | ... | Run-Cang Sun
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2016
  • - Article ID 6584597
  • - Research Article

Homogeneous Modification of Sugarcane Bagasse by Graft Copolymerization in Ionic Liquid for Oil Absorption Application

Ming-Jie Chen | Xue-Qin Zhang | ... | Qing-Shan Shi
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2016
  • - Article ID 3841410
  • - Research Article

Waste Composite Sensor Designed by Cellulose and Activated Carbon as Ethylene Absorber

S. Ummartyotin | C. Pechyen
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2016
  • - Article ID 1047606
  • - Research Article

Eggshell and Bacterial Cellulose Composite Membrane as Absorbent Material in Active Packaging

S. Ummartyotin | P. Pisitsak | C. Pechyen
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2016
  • - Article ID 9351725
  • - Research Article

Synthesis and Characterization of Uniform Spherical Nanoporous TiO2 Aerogel Templated by Cellulose Alcohol-Gel with Enhanced Photocatalytic Activity

Zhiming Liu | Peng Wu | ... | Chunde Jin
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2016
  • - Article ID 8769360
  • - Research Article

Extraction and Hydrophobic Modification of Cotton Stalk Bark Fiber

Ya-Yu Li | Guang-Ming Du | ... | De-Qiang Li
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