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SUBMITTER: Smith KB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6382315 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Smith Kathleen Beth KB Tisserant Jean-Nicolas JN Assenza Salvatore S Arcari Mario M Nyström Gustav G Mezzenga Raffaele R
Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) 20181218 4
Cellulose is a pervasive polymer, displaying hierarchical lengthscales and exceptional strength and stiffness. Cellulose's complex organization, however, also hinders the detailed understanding of the assembly, mesoscopic properties, and structure of individual cellulose building blocks. This study combines nanolithography with atomic force microscopy to unveil the properties and structure of single cellulose nanofibrils under weak geometrical confinement. By statistical analysis of the fibril m ...[more]