Engineering Outstanding Water Retention and Toughness through Gradient Cellular Architecture and Delignification: A Case Study of Palm Fronds
Delignification can engineer wood into high-performance multi-scaled materials, building up from its elementary fibrils of nanocellulose across its micro-scaled cellular architecture. However, the potential to engineer other, structurally diverse, non-woody biomass remains largely unexplored. Non-wood plants can add additional hierarchical structures at the mm- and cm-scale. Here, we explore such…
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