Sugarcane Bagasse as the Source of Nanocrystalline Cellulose for Gelatin-Free Capsule Shell

Figure 1

The crystalline and amorphous structures of cellulose. The red dotted arrow is the degradation of the amorphous or noncrystalline region with the weakest bond, this location being the site of the production of nanocrystalline cellulose or interfibrillar molecules.