A critical review on cellulose: From fundamental to an approach on sensor technology

The interest in cellulose and its modification as cellulose-based composite has been exponentially increasing. During the last three decades, cellulose and cellulose-based composite have been extensively designed for many aspects of the sensor. Due to the sustainability of cellulose and its excellent properties, the use of cellulose and the modification on cellulose-based composite can be versatile in the sensor community. In this review article, fundamental and background of cellulose and modification of cellulose-based composite are presented. Numerous approaches on cellulose and cellulose-based composite for many types of sensors including gas sensor, humidity sensor, UV sensor, strain sensor as well as capacitive sensor were discussed. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.