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James  McManus
                        Bioproducts Research

                        




                        
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                            ProjectsZero Waste Agricultural Processing
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                                                                    (D)Accession Number: 439387Alleviating Specialty Crop Export Barriers to France with Home Compostable Stickers
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                                                                    (I)Accession Number: 441445**Publications**
                                                (Clicking on the reprint icon
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                                                    will take you to the publication reprint.)Protonation of surface carboxyls on rice straw cellulose nanofibrils: Effect on the aerogel structure, modulus, strength, and wet resiliency
                                                        

- (Peer Reviewed Journal)Patterson, G.D., McManus, J.D., Orts, W.J., Hsieh, Y. 2023. Protonation of surface carboxyls on rice straw cellulose nanofibrils: Effect on the aerogel structure, modulus, strength, and wet resiliency. Biomacromolecules. 24(5):2052-2062. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biomac.2c01478.Garbage to nanocellulose: Quantitative isolation and characterization of steam-treated carboxymethyl holocellulose nanofibrils from municipal solid waste
                                                        

- (Peer Reviewed Journal)Patterson, G.D., McManus, J.D., McSpedon, D., Nazneen, S., Wood, D.F., Williams, T.G., Hart-Cooper, W.M., Orts, W.J. 2023. Garbage to nanocellulose: Quantitative isolation and characterization of steam-treated carboxymethyl holocellulose nanofibrils from municipal solid waste. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 11(7). Article 2727-2736. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.2c05236.Cellulose and lignocellulose nanofibrils and amphiphilic and wet-resilient aerogels with concurrent sugar extraction from almond hulls
                                                        

- (Peer Reviewed Journal)Patterson, G.D., Orts, W.J., McManus, J.D., Hsieh, Y. 2022. Cellulose and lignocellulose nanofibrils and amphiphilic and wet-resilient aerogels with concurrent sugar extraction from almond hulls. ACS Agricultural Science and Technology. 3(1):140-151. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsagscitech.2c00264.


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