Ball milling: a green technology for the preparation and ...
The use of ball milling to obtain cellulose nanocrystals was also explored by the group of Yu, who extracted CNCs from ballmilled wood via a multistep process. 40 DouglasFir wood chips were firstly hammermilled to wood flours, which were then treated using a planetary ball mill at 270 rpm. This process was followed by enzymatic hydrolysis ...