Figure 1: Cellulose microfibrils are one of the primary components of plant cell walls and are composed of 36 hydrogen-bonded β-1,4-linked glucose residues, each produced from a single CESA subunit.

Plant cell walls are primarily made of cellulose, which is the most abundant macromolecule on Earth. Cellulose fibers are long, linear polymers of hundreds of glucose molecules. These fibers ...

A paper describing this work is published in the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A. Cellulose is the Earth's most abundant and widespread natural polysaccharide, commonly found in plant ...