NEW NANO-CELLULOSE PRODUCTIOON METHOD CREATED IN CANADA
February 1st, 2011
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CANADIAN scientists have produced an adaptable high-grade nanocrystalline cellulose (NCC) using a novel environment-friendly extraction process, which can be scaled-up for industrial applications. The country's National Research Council's (NRC) Biotechnology Research Institute, in Montréal, sought a new method of separating this nanomaterial from standard cellulose. An older methods using sulphuric acid was expensive, caused environmental problems, was hard to adapt to industrial-scale production. So the institute developed a procedure that ...
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