Laurent Lebrun

TL;DR: Rod-like straight cellulose whiskers and long flexible entangled microfibrillated cellulose (MFC) were used to prepare cellulosic membranes as discussed by the authors, and it was observed that the diffusion of water is rather controlled by the surface than by the core, probably because of a barrier effect related to the presence of water at the surface during the sorption kinetics.

TL;DR: In this paper, a novel complexing membrane was used for the removal of heavy metal ions such as Pb, Cd, and Cu(II) from aqueous solutions, and the corresponding equilibrium constants were determined for the three metal ions, showing that the affinity order of the membrane is Pb>Cu>Cd.

TL;DR: It is shown that tensile modulus, breaking strength and breaking strain depend on the chemical treatment used, and that the Park model based on the three sorption modes: Langmuir, Henry's law and clustering was successfully used to simulate the experimental sorption data.

TL;DR: In this paper, the barrier properties of the nanocomposites to water vapor and oxygen were also investigated, and the effect of surface chemical modification of starch nanocrystals was studied.

TL;DR: An in-depth look at polysaccharide-based antibiofilm surfaces that have been proposed over the last ten years is taken, which is a novelty compared to published literature, and will bring well documented and updated information to readers of Acta Biomaterialia.