Table 5.

Chronological summary of the evolutionary research trend on nanocellulose-based scaffold materials.

Researchers	Progress	References
Ranby (1949)	The first production of microcellulose and nanocrystals with acid hydrolysis of cellulose fibres dispersed in water.	[58]
Turbak and Herrick (1983)	First isolation of nanofibrillated cellulose with mechanical homogenisation of wood.	[95]
Favier et al. (1995)	The first report demonstrating the reinforcing effect of cellulose nanocrystals.	[59]
Azizi Samir et al. (2004)	Isolation of cellulose whiskers reinforced nanocomposites from an organic medium suspension.	[96]
Svagan et al. (2007)	Preparation of cellulose nanofibres bio-foams from wood pulp-based on amylopectin-rich potato starch.	[97]
Henriksson et al. (2008)	Development of Nano-paper from cellulose nanofibre suspensions.	[98]
Fang et al. (2009)	Fabrication of hydroxyapatite/bacterial cellulose nanocomposite scaffolds for the cultivation of human bone marrow stromal cells.	[99]
Rosa et al. (2010)	Isolation and characterisation of cellulose nanofibre from coconut husk fibres.	[100]
Crotogino (2012)	First pilot plant for cellulose nanomaterials production by Innventia in Sweden.	[101]
Dugan et al. (2013)	Development of bacterial cellulose scaffolds and cellulose nanofibre for tissue engineering applications.	[102]
Zhou et al. (2013)	Development of electrospun cellulose nanocrystals-based scaffolds for bone tissue engineering, reinforcing maleic anhydride grafted PLA.	[103]
Yang et al. (2015)	Fabrication of cellulose nanocrystal-based aerogels as universal 3D lightweight substrates for supercapacitor materials.	[104]
Liu et al. (2016)	Development of nanocellulose scaffolds with tunable structures to support 3D cell culture	[105]
Li et al. (2017)	3D printing of many aerogel structures from pure cellulose nanocrystal with direct ink writing technique.	[106]
Apelgren et al. (2019)	In vivo formation of human cartilage in 3D bio-printed constructs with a novel bacterial nanocellulose bio-ink.	[107]