Wael Dagher

Valorization of cotton waste into cellulose nanocrystals and their incorporation into electrospun poly (vinyl alcohol) nanofibrous membranes with enhanced thermal and structural properties

Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) were extracted from cotton waste using alkaline treatment, bleaching, and sulfuric acid hydrolysis. Increasing the sulfuric acid concentration from 40% to 62% was associated with an increase in CNC yield from approximately 19.20 ± 3.9% to 41.30 ± 3.1...