Advanced Structures & Composites Center

Published: 2013

Publication Name: Production and Applications of CelluloseNanomaterials

Publication URL: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269710733_Production_and_Applications_of_Cellulose_Nanomaterials

Abstract:

“Production and Applications of Cellulosic Nanomaterials” was intended to help organize and highlight the wide range of research being conducted worldwide on the science and technology of cellulose nanomaterials. The format of this book consists of short research summaries, targeted for a level where they can be understood by non-specialists in the research fields, and with a lot of figures and pictures to help convey the science. Although we have tried to be thorough and inclusive in searching out authors, the world is still a big place in the 21st century, and we can guarantee that we have missed a lot of good science. The book has 106 contributions from about 45 institutions and 10 countries. Science on cellulose nanomaterials that is not included in the book is simply the result of limited time and limited resources. We believe there is sufficient on-going science on cellulose nanomaterials to support two or three books of this nature, maybe more, and encourage others to take up that challenge. The book is organized into two main chapters, based on the two general cellulose nanoparticle types used to date: cellulose nanocrystals (rod-like particle types) and cellulose nanofibrils (fibrillike particle types). Each chapter is itself divided into several main sections: Preparation and Characterization, Health and Safety, Coatings-Films-Optics, and Composites. The chapter on cellulose nanocrystals also contains a section on modeling. This deviates somewhat from the main chapters in that most of the summaries deal with molecular modeling of cellulose crystals, but several papers deal rather with models of composite products and the interface. This latter group tends to be agnostic on material form and in general works well within the CNC chapter, but anyone with interests in composite models should make sure to check the modeling section of the CNC chapter. Coupled with the irrational exuberance of taking on a book, the editing job is at times exhilarating, at times exasperating, exhausting, and ultimately when complete, rewarding, not in a personal or financial sense but with a real sense of achievement and contribution. Those emotions were increased in all of us when we realized that the initial response to the request for summaries was a book of 300 to 400 pages, approximately twice the initial target. But that response is a testament to the level of interest within the scientific community, and that knowledge helped propel us through that list of E’s (exuberance, emotion, exasperation and exhausting). We hope that we have served this community of scientists well. We thank them all for their contributions and for bearing with us as we tried to assemble the book. Now it is for you to decide whether the effort was worthwhile. We hope you enjoy and learn. This project has been a joint cooperation between the USDA Forest Products Laboratory (FPL), DOC National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the University of Maine, and the Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry (TAPPI). Inspiration for this book came from Michael Postek of NIST, while connections within the community and expertise with cellulose nanomaterials came from Robert Moon and Alan Rudie of FPL and Mike Bilodeau of the University of Maine. Having embraced TAPPI as publisher, the editors also loosely based the original distribution list of the call for summaries on the contributors to the TAPPI International Conference on Nanotechnology for Renewable Materials. In addition, the TAPPI Nanotechnologies Division became the formal book sponsor, and we would like to thank the Chairman, Sean Ireland, and the Division Council for their enthusiastic support. Book can be purchased at: http://www.tappi.org/Bookstore/Books-CD-ROMs/Books/Nanotechnology/0101R332.aspx