Advanced and Functional Lightweight Composite Components from Nanocellulose

For almost a decade, significant efforts have been made to fabricate material concepts from nanocellulose, e.g. barriers, films, foams, and fibres (filaments). As a result of combined knowledge of fibre suspension hydrodynamics, fibre technology and nanoscale interactions it has been shown to be possible to spin continuous filaments from a 100% nanocellulose dispersion with good mechanical performance and a possibility for functionalization e.g. conductivity or piezo resistivity. As a continued effort the technology has been further developed to allow scalable manufacturing in larger volumes, which allows research on applications that uses these filaments. Given the nature of the filaments, it is shown that it is possible to achieve components with transparency, mechanical performance and a possibility to serve as a basis for further functionalisation.