“…10,[17][18][19][20] The polyelectrolyte nature of Na CMC is, in itself, a reason for this poor understanding since many questions remain about the behavior of charged polymers in solution, 16,21 and especially in saltfree solutions; one example concerns the origin of the 'slow' relaxation mode typically observed using Light Scattering (LS), whose presence is not predicted by standard theory. [22][23][24] Given the biological origin of Na CMC, it typically has a high polydispersity of the chain length distribution 1,5,25,26 (common values of Mw/Mn are around 1.7-4.5 1,5,13,25,26 ). The crystallinity of the cellulose raw material, 3,25,27 and/or the amount and the distribution of the carboxymethyl groups along the chains.…”