Ramaraju Bendi
Lightweight, flexible and freestanding composite for Energy and Environmental applications have recently attracted great interests. Here, we have chemically modified cellulose nanofibers (CNFs) with carboxylic surface functional groups by TEMPO (2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-1-oxyl radical) oxidation and chemically bonded the modified CNFs with various metal pillars or conductive polymers to construct a robust and high-efficiency material for various Energy and Environmental Applications. The functionalization of CNF proves to be an effective approach to control the porosity via the inter-fiber electrostatic interactions and to provide active functional groups for the chemical interaction with
active components for composite film formation.