“…The acid hydrolysis is selective on degradation of amorphous holocellulose, resulting in colloid suspensions of welldefined cellulose nanocrystals (ALEMDAR; SAIN, 2008). Cellulose nanofibers have been studied for a myriad of applications, such as biofilms (GUIMARÃES JR. et al, 2015;BUFALINO et al, 2015a;BUFALINO et al, 2015b;SCATOLINO et al, 2017a;SCATOLINO et al, 2017b), reinforced papers (LAVOINE et al, 2014;MIRMEHDI et al, 2017), nano-metal complexes (DONIA et al, 2012;GUPTA et al, 2013;ARANTES et al, 2017), hybrid materials (FORTUNATI et al, 2014;RAABE et al, 2014;RAABE et al, 2015), biomedical products (SVENSSON et al, 2005;NIKOLAJASKI et al, 2012) and fiber-cements (FONSECA et al, 2016).…”