Recent Strategies in Preparation of Cellulose Nanocrystals and Cellulose Nanofibrils Derived from Raw Cellulose Materials

Figure 1

Schematic diagram of CNCs prepared by acid hydrolysis: (a) idealized cellulose microfibril showing one of the suggested configurations of the crystalline and amorphous regions and (b) CNCs after acid hydrolysis dissolved the disordered regions. Adapted from [5].

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