Nanocelluloses: Sustainable Design for the Direct Fabrication and Highly Versatile Functionalization of Nanocelluloses (Global Challenges 7/2017)

A sustainable concept for the scalable direct fabrication and functionalization of nanocellulose with reduced energy consumption is disclosed. A central part is the use of small organic molecules as catalysts and mediators for the production and subsequent versatile surface modification of the cellulosic nanomaterials with catalysts, biologically active, fluorescent and hydrophobic molecules. More information can be found in in article number 1700045 by Samson Afewerki, Rana Alimohammadzadeh, Sinke H. Osong, Cheuk‐Wai Tai, Per Engstrand, and Armando Córdova*. [Image: see text]