Journal article
Challenges in Synthesis and Analysis of Asymmetrically Grafted Cellulose Nanocrystals via Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization
Abstract
When cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) are isolated from cellulose microfibrils, the parallel arrangement of the cellulose chains in the crystalline domains is retained so that all reducing end-groups (REGs) point to one crystallite end. This permits the selective chemical modification of one end of the CNCs. In this study, two reaction pathways are compared to selectively attach atom-transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) initiators to the REGs of …
Authors
Delepierre G; Heise K; Malinen K; Koso T; Pitkänen L; Cranston ED; Kilpeläinen I; Kostiainen MA; Kontturi E; Weder C
Journal
Biomacromolecules, Vol. 22, No. 6, pp. 2702–2717
Publisher
American Chemical Society (ACS)
Publication Date
June 14, 2021
DOI
10.1021/acs.biomac.1c00392
ISSN
1525-7797