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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jul 2.
Published in final edited form as: Polymer (Guildf). 2018;153:10.1016/j.polymer.2018.08.007. doi: 10.1016/j.polymer.2018.08.007

Table 1.

Average area of CNC aggregate Aagg, Effective Spherical Diameter Dagg and Area Fraction obtained from image analysis.

Samples Average area of CNC aggregate Aagg (nm2) Effective Spherical Diameter Dagg (nm) Area Fraction (%)
1% modified 5.22 × 103 ± 4.17 × 103 68 ± 29 1.64 ± 0.45
1% unmodified 2.20 × 105 ± 6.67 × 104 526 ± 81 1.78 ± 0.05
5% modified 1.57 × 103 ± 5.26 × 102 44 ± 7 4.26 ± 0.26
5% unmodified 2.01 × 105 ± 6.80 × 103 506 ± 93 5.24 ± 0.37
10% modified 8.3 × 105 ± 4.87 × 105 890 ± 273 15.02 ± 0.63
10% unmodified 16.11 × 105 ± 13.63 × 105 1204 ± 565 6.49 ± 0.41