Fredrik Lundell

TL;DR: A process combining hydrodynamic alignment with a dispersion–gel transition that produces homogeneous and smooth filaments from a low-concentration dispersion of cellulose nanofibrils in water is presented.

TL;DR: Efficient stress transfer from macroscale to individual CNF due to cross-linking and high degree of order enables their Young's modulus to reach up to 86 GPa and a tensile strength of 1.57 GPa, exceeding the mechanical properties of known natural or synthetic biopolymeric materials.

TL;DR: It is shown that nanofibrillated cellulose (NFC) can act as an excellent aqueous dispersion agent for as-prepared SWNTs, making possible low-cost exfoliation and purification ofSWNTs with dispersion limits exceeding 40 wt %.

TL;DR: Papermaking is to a large extent a multiphase flow process in which the structure of the material and many of the relevant properties of the final product are determined by the interaction between water and the wood fibers as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: It is shown that addition of small amounts of silk fusion proteins to CNF results in materials with advanced biofunctionalities, which cannot be anticipated for the wood-based CNF alone, and suggest that bio-based materials provide abundant opportunities to design composites with high strength and functionalities and bring down the authors' dependence on fossil-based resources.