dc.rights.license | CC-BY-NC-ND | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Velikov, K.P. | |
dc.contributor.author | Brink, G. van den | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-08-28T17:02:08Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-08-28T17:02:08Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/27040 | |
dc.description.abstract | Cellulose is a versatile structural biomaterial with a wide range of current and potential future applications, such as food thickening agents, wound dressings, acoustic membranes and roll-to-roll electronics. In this thesis interactions and order of bacterial cellulose microfibrils are explored in regimes of Van der Waals degradation by reducing dielectric contrast and electrostatic augmentation by TEMPO-oxidation. We analyse the 2D orientational ordering and homogeneity of the samples with confocal microscopy images and discuss birefringence in the studied samples. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | Utrecht University | |
dc.format.extent | 160194852 | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.title | Interactions and order of cellulose microfibrils | |
dc.type.content | Master Thesis | |
dc.rights.accessrights | Open Access | |
dc.subject.keywords | interactions, order, Van der Waals, DLVO, bacterial cellulose, CMF, materials science, biodegradable, TEMPO-oxidation, order parameter, homogeneity, dispersions | |
dc.subject.courseuu | Nanomaterials: Chemistry and Physics | |