Achieving Enhanced Interfacial Adhesion and Dispersion in Cellulose Nanocomposites via Amorphous Interfaces

Understanding and designing nanoscale interfaces are essential to advancing the thermomechanical performance of polymer nanocomposites reinforced by nanocellulose. In this context, it remains to be understood how disorder introduced on the surfaces of crystals as filler materials during extraction and processing influences interfacial adhesion with glassy polymers. Using atomistic molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, here we systematically...