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Towards Biomimicking Wood: Fabricated Free-standing Films of Nanocellulose, Lignin, and a Synthetic Polycation
Published on: June 17, 2014
A Versatile 2D Cellulose Platform Strategy from Natural Wood Scaffold
Chao Wang1, Hanwei Wang1, Baokang Dang1
1College of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Zhejiang A & F University, Hangzhou, 311300, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
A wood cell wall with cellulose as the key scaffold is a natural hierarchical lamellar structure. This wood-derived cellulose scaffold has recently attracted enormous attention and interest, but almost all efforts have been devoted to its whole tissue functionalization. Here, we report the short ultrasonic processing of a wood cellulose scaffold to directly generate 2D cellulose materials. The obtained 2D cellulose nanosheets consist of many highly oriented fibrils densely arranged and can be further converted to ultrathin 2D carbon nanosheets. The nanoparticles, nickel-iron layer double hydroxide nanoflowers, manganese dioxide nanorods, and zinc oxide nanostars, are successfully loaded in the 2D nanosheet, providing a versatile 2D platform strategy for excellent 2D hybrid nanomaterials.
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