Pseudosolvent Intercalator of Chitin: Self‐Exfoliating into Sub‐1 nm Thick Nanofibrils for Multifunctional Chitinous Materials

Traditionally, energy‐intensive and time‐consuming postmechanical disintegration processes are inevitable in extracting biopolymer nanofibrils from natural materials and thereby hinder their practical applications. Herein, a new, convenient, scalable, and energy‐efficient method for exfoliating nanofibrils (ChNFs) from various chitin sources via pseudosolvent‐assisted intercalation process is proposed. These self‐exfoliated ChNFs possess...