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Kondo, T. (2007). Nematic Ordered Cellulose: Its Structure and Properties. In: Brown, R.M., Saxena, I.M. (eds) Cellulose: Molecular and Structural Biology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5380-1_16
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