Cellucomp Limited

Cosun Biobased Products B.v.

Novozymes A/s

University of Copenhagen

Pfizer Corporation

David Hepworth

Andrew Douglas Baxter

Lisbeth Kalum

Henrik Lund

Charlotte Moira Norfor Allerton

Eric Whale

Andrew Simon Cook

Peter Ulvskov

Stephen Kwok-Fung Wong

Bjoern Lennart Pierre Alexander Cassland

Natalia Petukhova

Bodil Jørgensen

David Sebastien Fradet

Andrew Anthony Calabrese

Andrew Love

Mikhail Talianski

Jane Shaw

Bodil Jorgensen

Bjoern Lennart Cassland

Charlotte Moira Allerton

Mark Lansdell

The present invention relates to nanoparticles and their use to form nanocomposite material, in particular bionanocomposite material, specifically wherein the nanoparticles are formed using plant virus attached to a scaffold of cellulosic material and/or cellulose derived materials, in particular wherein said cellulosic material further comprises plant cell components, for example hemicellulose, pectin, protein or combinations thereof.

Nanocomposite matertail

The invention relates to plant-derived cellulose-containing particles useful as strengthening agents in water based systems and to a process for preparing cellulose-containing particles from plant material, which process involves treating said plant material with a peroxide reagent. The process can be controlled to produce cellulose-containing particle having a viscosity up to about 2500 cps.

Cellulose particulate material

The invention relates to plant-derived cellulose-containing particles useful as rheology modifiers and to a process for preparing cellulose-containing particles from plant material, which process involves treating said plant material with a peroxide reagent. The process can be controlled to produce cellulose-containing particle having a viscosity up to about 7500 or 8000 cps.

Processes for producing cellulose microfibrils from herbaceous plant material using enzyme compositions, the cellulose microfibrils obtained from the processes and their uses, and compositions comprising the cellulose microfibrils are described.

Cellulose microfibrils

The invention relates to a composition comprising a plant-derived cellulose particulate material comprising less than 30 wt % extractable glucose; and extractable xylose in an amount of at least 3% of the amount of extractable xylose in the starting plant material, and an agent selected from the group comprising natural ionic polymers or natural non-ionic polymers; synthetic water dispersible polymers, and/or associative thickeners, and its various uses, including as a drilling fluid.

Compositions comprising parenchymal cellulose particulate material

A composition and method of preparing a composition is presented wherein the composition comprises cellulose platelets and the cellulose platelets comprise at least 60% cellulose by dry weight, less than 10% pectin by dry weight and at least 5% hemicellulose by dry weight. The composition can be concentrated to at least 25% by weight solids content by pressing under low pressure, whilst retaining the ability to be re suspended within an aqueous medium. The resulting aqueous medium obtains the desired properties of the composition, such as increased viscosity or increased dispersion of pigment particles, for example, to the same extent as the composition before pressing.

Cellulose platelet compositions, methods of preparing cellulose platelet compositions and products comprising same

A biocomposite material () and methods of production thereof are described. The biocomposite material () exhibits a physical stiffness, strength and toughness comparable to known glass fiber composites while its composition makes it inherently impermeable to water. A general formulation for the biocomposite material () is given by the expression: CelHPIHPOwhere 'Cel' represents cellulose fragments (), 'HPI' represents hydrophilic binders (), &#x201c;HPO&#x201d; represents hydrophobic binders () and (x) and (y) quantify the percentage by weight of the hydrophilic () and hydrophobic binders () present within a material, respectively. The described properties of the biocomposite material () are achieved when (x) is within the range of from 0.05 to 0.55 and (y) is within the range of from 0.05 to 0.65.

Biocomposite material

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