Review: current international research into cellulose nanofibres and nanocomposites

Journal of Materials Science - Tập 45 - Trang 1-33 - 2010
S. J. Eichhorn1, A. Dufresne2, M. Aranguren3, N. E. Marcovich3, J. R. Capadona4, S. J. Rowan5, C. Weder6, W. Thielemans7, M. Roman8, S. Renneckar8, W. Gindl9, S. Veigel10, J. Keckes11, H. Yano12, K. Abe12, M. Nogi12, A. N. Nakagaito12, A. Mangalam8, J. Simonsen13, A. S. Benight14, A. Bismarck15, L. A. Berglund16, T. Peijs17
1Materials Science Centre, School of Materials and the Northwest Composites Centre, Manchester, UK
2Grenoble Institute of Technology, The International School of Paper, Print Media & Biomaterials (Grenoble INP Pagora), Saint Martin D’Hères Cedex, France
3National Institute of Research in Science and Technology of Materials (INTEMA), Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Mar del Plata, Argentina
4Rehabilitation Research and Development, Louis Stokes Cleveland DVA Medical Center, Cleveland, USA
5Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), Cleveland, USA
6Adolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
7School of Chemistry and Process and Environmental Research Division, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
8Department of Wood Science and Forest Products, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA
9Department of Materials Science and Process Engineering, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, BOKU-Vienna, Austria
10Wood K plus – Competence Centre for Wood Composites and Wood Chemistry, Linz, Austria
11Department of Materials Physics, Erich Schmid Institute of Materials Science, Austrian Academy of Sciences, University of Leoben, Leoben, Austria
12Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
13Department of Wood Science & Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA
14Departments of Chemistry & Physics, Portland State University, Portland, USA
15Department of Chemical Engineering, Polymer and Composite Engineering Group (PACE), Imperial College London, London, UK
16Department of Fibre & Polymer Technology, Wallenberg Wood Science Centre, Stockholm, Sweden
17Centre for Materials Research, Queen Mary, University of London, London, UK

Tóm tắt

This paper provides an overview of recent progress made in the area of cellulose nanofibre-based nanocomposites. An introduction into the methods used to isolate cellulose nanofibres (nanowhiskers, nanofibrils) is given, with details of their structure. Following this, the article is split into sections dealing with processing and characterisation of cellulose nanocomposites and new developments in the area, with particular emphasis on applications. The types of cellulose nanofibres covered are those extracted from plants by acid hydrolysis (nanowhiskers), mechanical treatment and those that occur naturally (tunicate nanowhiskers) or under culturing conditions (bacterial cellulose nanofibrils). Research highlighted in the article are the use of cellulose nanowhiskers for shape memory nanocomposites, analysis of the interfacial properties of cellulose nanowhisker and nanofibril-based composites using Raman spectroscopy, switchable interfaces that mimic sea cucumbers, polymerisation from the surface of cellulose nanowhiskers by atom transfer radical polymerisation and ring opening polymerisation, and methods to analyse the dispersion of nanowhiskers. The applications and new advances covered in this review are the use of cellulose nanofibres to reinforce adhesives, to make optically transparent paper for electronic displays, to create DNA-hybrid materials, to generate hierarchical composites and for use in foams, aerogels and starch nanocomposites and the use of all-cellulose nanocomposites for enhanced coupling between matrix and fibre. A comprehensive coverage of the literature is given and some suggestions on where the field is likely to advance in the future are discussed.

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