Towards Biomimicking Wood: Fabricated Free-standing Films of Nanocellulose, Lignin, and a Synthetic Polycation

Karthik Pillai; Fernando Navarro Arzate; Wei Zhang; Scott Renneckar

doi:10.3791/51257

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Towards Biomimicking Wood: Fabricated Free-standing Films of Nanocellulose, Lignin, and a Synthetic Polycation

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Towards Biomimicking Wood: Fabricated Free-standing Films of Nanocellulose, Lignin, and a Synthetic Polycation

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11:26 min

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June 17, 2014

DOI:

10.3791/51257-v

DOI:

10.3791/51257-v

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11:26 min

June 17, 2014

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Karthik Pillai^1,2,3, Fernando Navarro Arzate^2,4, Wei Zhang^2,5, Scott Renneckar^1,2,5,6

¹Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science,Virginia Tech, ²Macromolecules and Interfaces Institute,Virginia Tech, ³Institute for Food Safety and Health,Illinois Institute of Technology- Moffett Campus, ⁴Wood, Cellulose, and Paper Research Department,University of Guadalajara, ⁵Department of Sustainable Biomaterials,Virginia Tech, ⁶Sustainable Nanotechnology Interdisciplinary Graduate Education Program,Virginia Tech

Summary

The objective of this research was to form synthetic plant cell wall tissue using layer-by-layer assembly of nanocellulose fibrils and isolated lignin assembled from dilute aqueous suspensions. Surface measurement techniques of quartz crystal microbalance and atomic force microscopy were used to monitor the formation of the polymer-polymer nanocomposite material.