Nanocellulose applications in sustainable electrochemical and piezoelectric systems: A review

Tayeb, Pegah; Tayeb, Ali H.

doi:10.1016/j.carbpol.2019.115149

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“…In the subsequent sections, we shed light on current trends and recent research on the use of nanocellulose with special emphasis on nanocomposites, medical, Pickering emulsifiers, wood adhesives, adsorption, separation, decontamination, and filtration applications, to provide readers with a comprehensive overview of the advanced science and engineering of nanocellulose-based emerging materials and uses. Other emerging applications of nanocellulose such as papermaking, oil and gas drilling and cementing, energy storage systems, sensors and biosensors, which have been extensively reviewed in recent years (Du X. et al, 2017;Chen et al, 2018;Kim J. H. et al, 2019;Tayeb and Tayeb, 2019;Balea et al, 2020;Dai et al, 2020;Lasrado et al, 2020;Ramasamy and Amanullah, 2020;Zhang et al, 2020), are excluded and they are beyond the scope of the present review. It is expected that this review will forge new directions for the preparation of NC as well as the design and production of new NC-based materials for widespread advanced applications.…”

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Nanocellulose: From Fundamentals to Advanced Applications

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Over the past few years, nanocellulose (NC), cellulose in the form of nanostructures, has been proved to be one of the most prominent green materials of modern times. NC materials have gained growing interests owing to their attractive and excellent characteristics such as abundance, high aspect ratio, better mechanical properties, renewability, and biocompatibility. The abundant hydroxyl functional groups allow a wide range of functionalizations via chemical reactions, leading to developing various materials with tunable features. In this review, recent advances in the preparation, modification, and emerging application of nanocellulose, especially cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs), are described and discussed based on the analysis of the latest investigations (particularly for the reports of the past 3 years). We start with a concise background of cellulose, its structural organization as well as the nomenclature of cellulose nanomaterials for beginners in this field. Then, different experimental procedures for the production of nanocelluloses, their properties, and functionalization approaches were elaborated. Furthermore, a number of recent and emerging uses of nanocellulose in nanocomposites, Pickering emulsifiers, wood adhesives, wastewater treatment, as well as in new evolving biomedical applications are presented. Finally, the challenges and opportunities of NC-based emerging materials are discussed.

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“…Upon corona poling of PVDF-TrFE, cells almost exclusively attached to the maximally piezoelectric negative surface compared to the positive surface. Piezoelectric activity is a fundamental property of cellulose 41 and wood 42 , but the implications of this property to plant cells are largely unknown. It is possible that electrical potential created by fiber movement due to fluid flow of the surrounding medium acts as a signal for plant cell adhesion.…”

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Artificial scaffolds that mimic the plant extracellular environment for the culture and attachment of plant cells

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Plant growth and development involves an intricate program of cell division and cell expansionto generate different cell types, tissue patterns and organ shapes. Plant cells are stuck together by their cell walls and the spatial context of cells within tissues plays a critical role in cell fate specification and morphogenesis. An in vitro model system to study plant development and its regulation by various extrinsic and intrinsic factors requires the ability to mimic the physical interactions between cells and their environment. Here, we present a set of artificial scaffolds to which cultured tobacco BY-2 cells adhere without causing morphological abnormalities. These scaffolds mimic native plant cell walls in terms of their fibrous nature, charge, hydrophobicity and piezoelectricity. We found that the extent of plant cell adhesion was essentially insensitive to the stiffness, fiber dimension, and fiber orientation of the scaffolds, but was affected by the piezoelectric properties of scaffolds where adhesion increased on piezoelectric materials. We also found that the plant cell wall polysaccharide, pectin, is largely responsible for adhesion to scaffolds, analogous to pectin-mediated adhesion of plant cells in tissues. Together, this work establishes biomimetic scaffolds that realistically emulate the plant tissue environment and provide the capability to develop microfluidic devices to study how cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions affect plant developmental pathways.

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“…In recent years, other types of nanofibers appeared such as amorphous nanocellulose, cellulose nanoyarn and cellulose nanoplatelets [17]. Several in-depth reviews with detailed discussions dealing with NC-based materials have been reported over the past few years, covering the nanocellulose sources, isolation methods, structure modification, potential uses, advantages and shortcomings [11,16,20,23,35,36,38,40,41,[78][79][80][81][82][83]. In the following, we concisely go through current extraction methods of CNC and describe their outstanding features.…”

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“…CNC-based nanomaterials have been extensively investigated due to their unique physicochemical, mechanical, thermal, rheological and optical features. CNC could confer excellent properties to hybrids or nanocomposites (metallic, ceramics and polymeric) even at low concentration for different applications such as medical, pharmaceutics, catalysis, oil/water separation, decontamination, flame retardancy, electronic and optical devices, energy storage, sportswear, light weight armor systems, food packaging, to cite a few [ 10 , 11 , 13 , 14 , 20 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 ].…”

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“…Such agglomeration behavior can reduce the surface area and negatively impact the mechanical, electrical and optical properties. Therefore, the incorporation of CNC not only surpasses such drawback through its excellent dispersive features but also confers further benefits to the produced GNM/CNC hybrids such as flexibility, stretchability, in addition to the improvement of the adsorption capacity, photothermal activity, stability, intrinsic luminescence and fluorescence, optical transparency and thermal conductivity [ 36 , 40 , 42 , 56 ].…”

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Cellulose Nanocrystals/Graphene Hybrids—A Promising New Class of Materials for Advanced Applications

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With the growth of global fossil-based resource consumption and the environmental concern, there is an urgent need to develop sustainable and environmentally friendly materials, which exhibit promising properties and could maintain an acceptable level of performance to substitute the petroleum-based ones. As elite nanomaterials, cellulose nanocrystals (CNC) derived from natural renewable resources, exhibit excellent physicochemical properties, biodegradability and biocompatibility and have attracted tremendous interest nowadays. Their combination with other nanomaterials such as graphene-based materials (GNM) has been revealed to be useful and generated new hybrid materials with fascinating physicochemical characteristics and performances. In this context, the review presented herein describes the quickly growing field of a new emerging generation of CNC/GNM hybrids, with a focus on strategies for their preparation and most relevant achievements. These hybrids showed great promise in a wide range of applications such as separation, energy storage, electronic, optic, biomedical, catalysis and food packaging. Some basic concepts and general background on the preparation of CNC and GNM as well as their key features are provided ahead.

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Nanocellulose applications in sustainable electrochemical and piezoelectric systems: A review

Cited by 65 publications

References 237 publications

Nanocellulose: From Fundamentals to Advanced Applications

Nanocellulose: From Fundamentals to Advanced Applications

Artificial scaffolds that mimic the plant extracellular environment for the culture and attachment of plant cells

Cellulose Nanocrystals/Graphene Hybrids—A Promising New Class of Materials for Advanced Applications

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