Université de Fribourg

Review: current international research into cellulose nanofibres and nanocomposites

Eichhorn, S. J. ; Dufresne, A. ; Aranguren, M. ; Marcovich, N. E. ; Capadona, J. R. ; Rowan, S. J. ; Weder, Christoph ; Thielemans, W. ; Roman, M. ; Renneckar, S. ; Gindl, W. ; Veigel, S. ; Keckes, J. ; Yano, H. ; Abe, K. ; Nogi, M. ; Nakagaito, A. N. ; Mangalam, A. ; Simonsen, J. ; Benight, A. S. ; Bismarck, A. ; Berglund, L. A. ; Peijs, T.

In: Journal of Materials Science, 2010, vol. 45, no. 1, p. 1-33

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...

Université de Fribourg

Functional polymer blends and nanocomposites

Weder, Christoph

In: Chimia, 2009, vol. 63, no. 11, p. 758–763

The broad class of (multi)functional polymers with unusual combinations of optical, electronic, mechanical and other properties is attracting significant interest, because it conceptually combines the advantages of polymers - low cost, ease of processing and a range of attractive mechanical characteristics - with the specific, tailorable properties of functional organic molecules. The caveat is...