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Table I.
The Family of Nanocellulose Materialsa
Type of Nanocellulose Synonyms Typical Sources Formation and Average Size
Microfibrillated Microfibrillated cellulose, Wood, sugar beet, potato tuber, hemp, Delamination of wood pulp by mechanical pressure before
Cellulose nanofibrils and microfibrils, flax and/or after chemical or enzymatic treatment
(MFC) nanofibrillated cellulose diameter: 5–60 nm
length: several micrometers
Nanocrystalline Cellulose nanocrystals, crystallites, Wood, cotton, hemp, flax, wheat straw, Acid hydrolysis of cellulose from many sources
Cellulose whiskers, mulberry bark, ramie, Avicel, tunicin, diameter: 5–70 nm
(NCC) rodlike cellulose cellulose from algae and bacteria length: 100–250 nm (from plant celluloses);
microcrystals 100 nm to several micrometers (from celluloses of tunicates,
algae, bacteria)
Bacterial Nanocellulose Bacterial cellulose, microbial Low-molecular weight sugars and Bacterial synthesis
(BNC) cellulose, alcohols diameter: 20–100 nm; different types of nanofiber
biocellulose networks
range of 10–70 nm and lengths of thousands of nanometers, pineapple, bananas, and coconut crops. Today, these agri-
are the constituent of microfibers.8 The cellulose microfiber cultural by-products are either burned or used for low-value
has been defined as a fiber consisting of continuous cellulose products such as animal feed or in biofuel production. Because
chains with negligible lignin and hemicelluloses content of their renewability, crop residues can be valuable sources of
and having a diameter of 0.1–1 µm, with a minimum cor- natural nanofibers.2
responding length of 2–20 µm.9 Traditionally, cellulose
Bacterial Cellulose
nanofiber has been defined as purely crystalline cellulose
chains having diameters within the range of 5 to 40 nm with In addition to its plant origins, cellulose fibers are also secreted
lengths of a few microns.10 as extracellular structures by certain bacteria belonging to the
genera Acetobacter, Agrobacterium, Alcaligenes, Pseudomonas,
Sources Rhizobium, or Sarcina. The most efficient producer of bacterial
Wood cellulose is Acetobacter xylinum (or Gluconacetobacter xylinus),
Mechanical extraction of nanofibers from wood dates back a Gram-negative strain of acetic acid producing bacteria.3
to the 1980s, when researchers produced MFC from wood
pulp using cyclic mechanical treatment in a high-pressure Microfibrillated Cellulose (MFC)
homogenizer. The homogenization process resulted in MFC production by fibrillation of cellulose fibers into nano-
disintegration of the wood pulp and a material in which the scale elements requires intensive mechanical treatment.
fibers were opened into their sub-structural microfibrils. However, depending upon the raw material and the degree
The resulting MFC gels consisted of strongly entangled and of processing, chemical treatments may be applied prior to
disordered networks of cellulose nanofiber. Bleached kraft mechanical fibrillation. These chemical processes are aimed
pulp has often been used as the starting material for research to produce purified cellulose, such as bleached cellulose pulp,
on MFC production.2 which can then be further processed. There are also examples
with reduced energy demand in which the isolation of cellu-
Agricultural Crops and By-Products lose microfibrils involves enzymatic pre-treatment followed by
Wood is certainly the most important industrial source of mechanical treatments.11
cellulosic fibers. Nevertheless, competition from different
sectors, such as the building products, furniture industries, Forcing wood-based cellulose fiber suspensions through
and the pulp and paper industry, as well as the combus- mechanical devices, such as high-pressure homogenizers,
tion of wood for energy, makes it challenging to supply all produces microfibrillated cellulose (MFC). Mechanical treat-
users with the quantities of wood needed at reasonable cost. ment delaminates fibers and liberates microfibrils that are ~20
As a result, fibers from crops such as flax, hemp, sisal, and nm wide. Pulp is produced from wood by chemical treat-
others, especially from by-products of these different plants, ment. By using a mixture of sodium hydroxide and sodium
are likely to become of increasing interest. Other possible sulfide, so-called kraft pulp (almost pure cellulose fibers) is
examples of agricultural by-products which might be used obtained. Pulping with salts of sulfurous acid leads to cellulose
to derive nanocellulose include those obtained from the named sulfite pulp, which contains more by-products in the
cultivation of corn, wheat, rice, sorghum, barley, sugar cane, cellulose fibers.
Fig. 1. TEM images of dried dispersion of cellulose nanocrystals derived from (a) tunicate (Reprinted with permission.16 Copyright 2008 American Chemi-
cal Society), (b) bacterial (Reprinted with permission.17 Copyright 2004 American Chemical Society), (c) ramie ( Reproduced18 by permission of The Royal
Society of Chemistry), (d) sisal (Reprinted with permission.19 Copyright 2006 Springer), (e) cotton (Reprinted with permission.20 Copyright 1996 American
Chemical Society), and (f) sugar beet (Reprinted with permission.21 Copyright 2004 American Chemical Society).
The major impediment for commercial success has been the cal process starts with the removal of polysaccharides
very high energy consumption amounting to over 25,000 bound at the fibril surface and is followed by the cleavage
kWh per ton in the production of MFC as a result of the and destruction of the more readily accessible amorphous
required multiple passes through homogenizers.12 Saito et regions to liberate rodlike crystalline cellulose sections.
al.13 have proposed a new process to obtain MFC based on When the appropriate level of glucose-chain depolymer-
the TEMPO (2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-1-oxyl) radical ization has been reached, the acidic mixture is diluted
reaction and strong mixing. In their study, individualized and the residual acids and impurities are fully removed
MFC was obtained by TEMPO-mediated oxidation at room by repeated centrifugation and extensive dialysis.3 The
temperature and stirring at 500 rpm. At pH 10, optimal structure, properties, and phase-separation behavior of
conditions were reached giving cellulose nanofibers of cellulose-nanocrystal suspensions are strongly dependent on
3–4 nm in width and a few microns in length.5 the type of mineral acid and its concentration, the hydro-
lysis temperature and time, and the intensity of ultrasonic
Nanocrystalline Cellulose (NCC) irradiation used.14 Cellulose sources are variable, and their
NCC is the term often used for cellulose nanocrystals degree of crystallinity strongly influences the dimensions
prepared from natural cellulose by acid hydrolysis. The of the liberated crystals. Cellulose nanocrystals show some
nanocrystals formed from wood pulp are shorter and dispersibility in aqueous-based mixtures and in organic
thinner than the MFC. Also known as whiskers, they solvents with high dielectric constants, such as dimethyl
consist of rodlike cellulose crystals with widths and sulfoxide (DMSO) and ethylene glycol, but tend to aggregate
lengths of 5–70 nm and between 100 nm and several in highly hydrophobic solutions. Azizi Samir et al.15 freeze-
micrometers, respectively. dried NCC samples and redispersed them by sonication in
N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF).
The function of the mineral acid hydrolysis is to gener-
ate cellulose nanocrystals by the liberation of crystalline Transmission electron microscopic (TEM) images of NCCs
regions of the semicrystalline cellulosic fibers. This chemi- are shown in Fig. 1.16-21
Fig. 2. Methods of production of nanocelluloses from macroscopic cellulose fibers (Reprinted with permission.38 Copyright 2007 American
Chemical Society).
fibrillation, whereas the longer the raw fiber, the lower the second type of nanocellulose with much smaller dimensions,
fibrillation. The cellulose concentration of the suspension NCC, requires chemical treatment such as acid hydrolysis to
depends on the dimensions of the cellulose fiber, resulting remove amorphous section of partially crystalline cellulose.
in lower concentrations when the fiber was longer. A larger NCC shows liquid crystalline properties. Another nanocel-
distance from the HIUS probe tip to the beaker bottom was lulose variant, BNC, unlike the previous two categories,
not beneficial to fibrillation.37 Fig. 2 summarizes nanocellu- is prepared from low molecular weight resources, such
lose production mechanisms.38 as sugar, with the help of acetic acid bacteria of the genus
Gluconacetobacter. The shape, structure of the nanofiber
Conclusion network, and composite formation can be controlled by in
situ bio-fabrication of BNC.
Growing research efforts have recently been reported regard-
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in the last seven years. It was confirmed that MFC, which categories of the nanocellulose family, especially NCC,
exhibits gel-like properties, can be obtained by a purely makes a review focusing on preparation imperative. The
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