Abstract
<p class="p1" style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size:16px;margin-bottom: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 legalized hemp cultivation in the USA. Since then, the production of hemp has been rapidly increasing. The hemp cultivation waste is rich in cellulose but is discarded as a landfill. Sustainable reuse of this waste is necessary to reduce the amount of landfill from hemp cultivation. Nanocellulose such as cellulose nanocrystals (CNC) from biomass are gaining popularity as reinforcing materials because of their superior strength, sustainable source, and biocompatibility. Hemp cultivation waste can be used to produce nanocellulose. In this work, CNCs were successfully synthesized using hemp agrowaste following three different methods followed by morphological and chemical analysis. Future work includes applications of the CNCs in biosensors, imaging, and reinforcing materials.</span>
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