{"id":230,"date":"2021-03-30T13:41:10","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T13:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.cnr.ncsu.edu\/nathalielavoine\/?page_id=230"},"modified":"2026-04-09T19:33:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T19:33:22","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.cnr.ncsu.edu\/nathalielavoine\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our research group exploits and valorizes <strong>renewable resources<\/strong> for <strong>green materials design and engineering<\/strong>. More specifically, we aim to deepen our understanding on the process-structure-properties-performance relationships of renewable feedstock for their valorization and utilization as advanced functional materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of our <strong>goals<\/strong> is to propose more <strong>sustainable alternatives to petroleum-based products<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Part of our expertise is the extraction, characterization and utilization of <strong>cellulose nanomaterials<\/strong> (cellulose nanofibrils, CNFs, and cellulose nanocrystals, CNCs &#8211; more information below!), as building block model for the development of packaging substrates and coatings, stimuli-responsive materials, controlled release systems, functional porous materials, among other high-performance products and novel applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"709\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.cnr.ncsu.edu\/nathalielavoine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/03\/Home-page-Website-1024x709.png\" alt=\"Why cellulose nanomaterials? A description of what is cellulose nanomaterials from the tree to its hierarchical structure of fibrils down to the cellulose chain assembly.\n\nWe use this material because they are bio-sourced building blocks, biodegradable, biocompatible, versatile and tunable, of large aspect ratio, surface area to volume ratio, strength to weight ratio and ow low coefficient of thermal expansion\" class=\"wp-image-238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.cnr.ncsu.edu\/nathalielavoine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/03\/Home-page-Website-1024x709.png 1024w, https:\/\/faculty.cnr.ncsu.edu\/nathalielavoine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/03\/Home-page-Website-300x208.png 300w, https:\/\/faculty.cnr.ncsu.edu\/nathalielavoine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/03\/Home-page-Website-768x532.png 768w, https:\/\/faculty.cnr.ncsu.edu\/nathalielavoine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/03\/Home-page-Website.png 1040w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Feel free to have a look at our on-going <a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.cnr.ncsu.edu\/nathalielavoine\/research\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">research activities<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.cnr.ncsu.edu\/nathalielavoine\/publications\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">published work<\/a>, and to <a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.cnr.ncsu.edu\/nathalielavoine\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">contact us<\/a> if you have any questions or wish to join us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our research group exploits and valorizes renewable resources for green materials design and engineering. More specifically, we aim to deepen our understanding on the process-structure-properties-performance&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":236,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"views\/homepage.blade.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-230","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.cnr.ncsu.edu\/nathalielavoine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.cnr.ncsu.edu\/nathalielavoine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.cnr.ncsu.edu\/nathalielavoine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.cnr.ncsu.edu\/nathalielavoine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.cnr.ncsu.edu\/nathalielavoine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.cnr.ncsu.edu\/nathalielavoine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":804,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.cnr.ncsu.edu\/nathalielavoine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/230\/revisions\/804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.cnr.ncsu.edu\/nathalielavoine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.cnr.ncsu.edu\/nathalielavoine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}