ABSTRACT

Due to its abundant, renewable and remarkable properties (i.e high surface area, high modulus), cellulose nano-crystal (CNC) could be competing with carbon nano-tube (CNT). Recently, synthesize of this CNC becoming great attention to researcher over the world. In this review, many source in particular wood and non wood was explored to produce CNC. Many methods such as physical, chemical, and mechanical was conducted to isolate CNC. Furthermore, enzymatic treatment resulting in improvement process and low energy needed was recently reported to obtain large yield and industrial applicable of CNC. The formation of chiral nematic phase of CNC will be the next focus exploitation for its future application. Finally, future outlook of CNC research also discussed.


Keywords: Cellulose nanocrystal, synthesize, properties, applications