Cellulose Nanocomposites: Processing, Characterization, and Properties; Proceedings

SciTech Book News, Sept, 2006

Cellulose nanocomposites; processing, characterization, and properties; proceedings.

American Chemical Society Meeting (229th: 2005: San Diego, CA) Ed. by Kristiina Oksman and Mohini Sain.

American Chemical Society

2006

256 pages

$154.50

Hardcover

ACS symposium series; 938

TA418

In these papers presented at the May 2005 symposium, participants describe their work in this relatively new research field, which studies nanocomposites of micro- and nano-fiber reinforced polymers, based totally on renewable raw materials. After an introduction to the basics of cellulose nanocomposites, topics include strategies for preparing cellulose whiskers from microcrystalline cellulose as reinforcement in nanocomposites, self-assembly of cellulose nanocrystals in parabolic focal conic films, the isolation and characterization of cellulose fibrils and their capacity for technical applications, Raman spectroscopy, interfacial modification of cellulose-reinforced composites, cellulose nanocrystals for thermoplastic reinforcement in the effect of filler surface chemistry on composite properties, twin screw extrusion, biopolymer-based nanocomposite films using microcrystalline cellulose, nanocomposites based on cellulose microfibril, cellulose microfibers as reinforcing agents for structural materials, dispersion of soybean-based nanofibers in a plastic matrix, polysulfone-cellulose nanocomposites, and bacterial cellulose and its nanocomposites for biomedical applications. Distributed by Oxford U. Press.

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