Cellulose nanoparticles have attracted much attention in the past few years due to their impressive mechanical properties and nanoscale dimensions, which result in very high surface area to volume ratios. Chemically, cellulose is linear homopolysaccharide, composed of β-D-glucopyranose units that remain linked by β-1,4 glycosidic bonds, which contains considerable amounts of hydroxyl groups. These hydroxyl groups and their hydrogen-bonding ability play a major role in crystalline packing and in governing the important physical properties of these highly cohesive materials. They have remarkable suitability for surface functionalization, making them ideal candidates to improve the mechanical properties of the host material. There are some other advantages such as low cost, low density, renewable nature, biodegradability, wide variety of available filler, low energy consumption, high performance, and modest abrasivity during processing. All these characteristics enable them to be suitable
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