McGill University Anti-Scaling Solution Requires "Hairy Nanocellulose"
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Negatively charged carboxyl groups are grafted to hairy cellulosic nanoparticles. Result, no longer neutral, controls tendency of positive calcium ions to form scale. Case is indicative of wide potential variations in each new type of cellulosic nano-structures being successfully isolated and made available for research.
The secret behind the success to this formulation being effective suggests nano-structures react (or fail to react) in fully unique ways due to sub-molecular differences in exposure to the same proposed chem. prep; here "cellulosic nano-hair", a newly discovered nano-cellulosic particle configuration, is required to work effectively as only minimal amounts of useful anti-scaling end-product could be created using traditionally textured fibrils and/or crystals (two most common est. nano structures of cellulose presently used for chemical engineering R&D)
More information about this is available in the full article published in Nov. 2018 by Water Technology (Birmingham, Ala., USA)
