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Alfred D. French is affiliated with the United States Department of Agriculture in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Materials Science, with additional work in Engineering. Within these areas, they concentrate on subfields such as Biomaterials, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Molecular Biology, and Plant Science.

Their research topics cover a range of subjects including Advanced Cellulose Research Studies, Lignin and Wood Chemistry, Biofuel Production and Bioconversion, Polysaccharides and Plant Cell Walls, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications, and Polysaccharides Composition and Applications.

Recent notable publications by Alfred D. French include:

  • Increment in evolution of cellulose crystallinity analysis, 2020, Cellulose
  • Comparison and assessment of methods for cellulose crystallinity determination, 2023, Chemical Society Reviews
  • Cellulose nanofibers from rapidly microwave-delignified energy cane bagasse and their application in drilling fluids as rheology and filtration modifiers, 2020, Industrial Crops and Products
  • N-Methylmorpholine-N-oxide (NMMO): hazards in practice and pitfalls in theory, 2021, Cellulose
  • Stepwise allomorphic transformations by alkaline and ethylenediamine treatments on bamboo crystalline cellulose for enhanced enzymatic digestibility, 2022, Industrial Crops and Products

The venues in which they frequently publish comprise Cellulose, Industrial Crops and Products, Carbohydrate Polymers, BioResources, and The Cambridge Structural Database.

Alfred D. French collaborates regularly with several co-authors, including:

  • J. Vincent Edwards
  • Thomas Rosenau
  • Robert T. Mackin
  • Brian Condon
  • Yuko Yoneda

Best Publications

  • Idealized powder diffraction patterns for cellulose polymorphs

    Alfred D. French

  • Cellulose polymorphy, crystallite size, and the Segal Crystallinity Index

    Alfred D. French;Michael Santiago Cintrón

  • Segal crystallinity index revisited by the simulation of X-ray diffraction patterns of cotton cellulose Iβ and cellulose II.

    Sunghyun Nam;Alfred D. French;Brian D. Condon;Monica Concha

  • Effects of ball milling on the structure of cotton cellulose

    Zhe Ling;Zhe Ling;Tuo Wang;Mohamadamin Makarem;Michael Santiago Cintrón

  • Glucose, not cellobiose, is the repeating unit of cellulose and why that is important

    Alfred D. French

  • About the structure of cellulose: debating the Lindman hypothesis

    Wolfgang G. Glasser;Rajai H. Atalla;John Blackwell;R. Malcolm Brown

  • Increment in evolution of cellulose crystallinity analysis

    Alfred D. French

  • Neutron crystallography, molecular dynamics, and quantum mechanics studies of the nature of hydrogen bonding in cellulose Ibeta.

    Yoshiharu Nishiyama;Glenn P. Johnson;Alfred D. French;V. Trevor Forsyth

  • Comparative properties of cellulose nano-crystals from native and mercerized cotton fibers

    Yiying Yue;Chengjun Zhou;Alfred D. French;Guan Xia

  • Relative stability of alternative chair forms and hydroxymethyl conformations of β-d-glucopyranose

    Susan E. Barrows;Frederic J. Dulles;Christopher J. Cramer;Alfred D. French

  • Evaluation of Density Functionals and Basis Sets for Carbohydrates

    Gábor I. Csonka;Alfred D. French;Glenn P. Johnson;Carlos A. Stortz

  • Effect of cellulose fine structure on kinetics of its digestion by mixed ruminal microorganisms in vitro.

    P J Weimer;J M Lopez-Guisa;A D French

  • Characterization of cellulose II nanoparticles regenerated from 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride

    Jingquan Han;Chengjun Zhou;Alfred D. French;Guangping Han

  • A comparison and chemometric analysis of several molecular mechanics force fields and parameter sets applied to carbohydrates

    Serge Pérez;Anne Imberty;Soren B Engelsen;Jan Gruza

  • Modeling of aldopyranosyl ring puckering with MM3 (92)

    Michael K. Dowd;Alfred D. French;Peter J. Reilly

  • Cellulose nanofibers reinforced sodium alginate-polyvinyl alcohol hydrogels: Core-shell structure formation and property characterization.

    Yiying Yue;Jingquan Han;Guangping Han;Alfred D. French

  • X‐Ray diffraction of oriented amylose fibers. II. Structure of V amyloses

    H. F. Zobel;A. D. French;M. E. Hinkle

  • Computer modeling of carbohydrate molecules

    Alfred D. French;John W. Brady

  • Characterization of cellulose I/II hybrid fibers isolated from energycane bagasse during the delignification process: Morphology, crystallinity and percentage estimation

    Yiying Yue;Jingquan Han;Guangping Han;Quanguo Zhang

  • Conformational analysis of the anomeric forms of kojibiose, nigerose, and maltose using MM3.

    Michael K. Dowd;Jing Zeng;Alfred D. French;Peter J. Reilly

  • Factors controlling relative stability of anomers and hydroxymethyl conformers of glucopyranose

    Susan E. Barrows;Joey W. Storer;Christopher J. Cramer;Alfred D. French

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher J. Cramer
Christopher J. Cramer UL Research Institutes
Peter J. Reilly
Peter J. Reilly Iowa State University
Thomas Rosenau
Thomas Rosenau BOKU University
Qinglin Wu
Qinglin Wu Louisiana State University
Antje Potthast
Antje Potthast BOKU University
Robert J. Woods
Robert J. Woods University of Georgia
Edwin D. Stevens
Edwin D. Stevens University of New Orleans
Roger A. Laine
Roger A. Laine Louisiana State University
Yoshiharu Nishiyama
Yoshiharu Nishiyama Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Seong H. Kim
Seong H. Kim Pennsylvania State University

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