Table 3.
Chronological summary of the research trends on microcellulose-based materials.
Researchers | Progress | References |
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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] |