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Dry, hydrophobic microfibrillated cellulose powder obtained in a simple procedure using alkyl ketene dimer
Preparation of cross-linked cellulose nanofibril aerogel with water absorbency and shape recovery
From Architectured Materials to Large-Scale Additive Manufacturing
The classical material-by-design approach has been extensively perfected by materials scientists, while engineers have been optimising structures geometrically for centuries. The purpose of architectured materials is to build bridges across themicroscale ofmaterials and themacroscale of engineering structures, to put some geometry in the microstructure. This is a paradigm shift. Materials cannot be considered monolithic anymore. Any set of materials functions, even antagonistic ones, can be envisaged in the future. In this paper, we intend to demonstrate the pertinence of computation for developing architectured materials, and the not-so-incidental outcome which led us to developing large-scale additive manufacturing for architectural applications