Cellulose: Missing the Forests for the Trees
Figure 1: Chinese woodprints of the papermaking process (Wikimedia Commons) Cellulose is one of the most abundant organic compounds on earth and utilized in applications as diverse as textiles, papermaking, food packaging, filtration, drug delivery systems, wound care products, nanocomposites, bone tissue engineering, and countless others. Cellulose is a fibrilar and semi-crystalline biopolymer which may […]