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. 2020 Sep 8;12(9):2043. doi: 10.3390/polym12092043

Table 3.

Chronological summary of the research trends on microcellulose-based materials.

Researchers Progress References
Payen (1839) The first-time isolation of cellulose as the principal constituent of wood. [56]
Schonbein (1845) The first invention of cellulose esters. [57]
Ranby (1949) The first production of microcellulose and nanocrystals with acid hydrolysis of cellulose fibres dispersed in water. [58]
Ranby (1951) First synthesised colloidal suspensions of cellulose with acid-catalysed degradation of cellulose fibres. [23]
Mukherjee et al. (1952) First TEM images of cellulose materials. [59]
Battista and Smith (1955) Microcrystalline cellulose first discovery. [60]
Colvin et al. (1960) Formation of micro-fibrillated cellulose in suspensions of Acetobacter xylinum. [61]
Halliwell et al. (1965) Soil micro-organisms cellulolytic enzymes to re-precipitate cellulose and preparing it by hydrolysis of fibrous cotton. [62]
Heyn et al. (1966) Extensively study of the microcrystalline structure of cellulose in cell walls of plants fibres as revealed by negative staining of sections. [63]
Toshkov et al. (1976) Development of various method to produce microcrystalline cellulose. [64]
Kobayashi and Shoda (1992) First full chemically synthesised cellulose (non-biosynthetic path). [65]
Revol et al. (1998) Development of cellulose-based solidified liquid crystals for various optical applications. [66]
Nakagaito & Yano (2004) Applying of cellulose microfibril for semi-structural applications [67]
Kulpinski (2005), Viswanathan et al. (2006) Electrospinning of pure cellulose. [59]
Henriksson et al. (2007) Preparation of micro-fibrillated cellulose nanofibres with an environmentally friendly method for enzyme-assisted. [68]
Nyström et al. (2010) Development of nanocellulose polypyrrole composite based on micro-fibrillated cellulose from wood. [69]
Shao et al. (2015) Use of micro-fibrillated cellulose/lignosulfonate blends hydrogel rheology on 3D printing. [70]
Alavi et al. (2019) Modifications of microcrystalline cellulose for antimicrobial and wound healing applications. [71]