Enqing Zhu

Abstract Sustainable structural fibers are highly desirable because many conventional high-performance fibers are neither renewable nor biodegradable. Bamboo original fibers, which possess a natural hollow vascular bundle architecture, represent a promising biomass-derived reinforcement but are difficult to isolate without damaging their structure.

1. Introduction Click to copy section linkSection link copied! Cellulose is one of the most common and renewable biopolymer resources widely derived from plants, animals, and fungi. As an important part of plant cell walls, cellulose contributes more than 50% of the carbon content in the plant kingdom. (1) Cellulose is a kind of natural chain polymer compound that is connected by glucose units through β-1,4-glucosidic bonds (Figure 1).