Surface Science and Advanced Functional Applications of Cellulose Composites

Surface Science and Advanced Functional Applications of Cellulose Composites, Volume 38 looks at cellulose composites in relation to surface science and applications. The book provides a comprehensive summary grounded in the surface chemistry and polymer physics of cellulose composites while also enabling readers to understand their history, status, and commercial challenges, and future potential using a range of case studies and examples. Other sections explore the applications of biomedical, antibacterial, water treatment, flexible electronic devices, energy storage, and sensing and review recent developments, problems, and potential developmental directions of cellulose composites.

This book will appeal to chemists, chemical engineers, and materials scientists engaged in biomass, cellulose, nanocellulose, composites, surface science, and related applied biomedical, antibacterial, water treatment, flexible electronic device, and energy storage fields.

• Provides a comprehensive summary grounded in the surface chemistry and polymer physics of cellulose composites
• Covers the development, history, status, and commercial challenges
• Explores applications in biomedical, antibacterial, water treatment, flexible electronic devices, energy storage, and sensing
• Utilizes a range of case studies and useful examples
• Includes a forward-looking emphasis on the sustainability of cellulose derived materials

Ming-Guo Ma is a professor and group leader at Beijing Forestry University, China. His current research focuses on the synthesis, properties, and applications of nanocellulose/MXene composites for sensors, energy storage, Joule heating, photothermal applications, wearable devices, and electromagnetic interface shielding.

Xing-Xiang Ji is currently a full professor and a group leader at Qilu University of Technology, PR China. She received her B.S. (1999) and M.S. (2006) in Pulp and Paper Engineering from Qilu University of Technology and completed her Ph.D. (2013) in Sugar Engineering at Guangxi University, PR China. She has co-authored around 50 international scientific publications and 40 patents. Her current research focuses on the biomass resource utilization.