A close-up view of the wood cell wall ultrastructure and its mechanics at different cutting angles by atomic force microscopy

• Published in: Planta Vol. 247; no. 5; pp. 1123 - 1132
• Main Authors: Casdorff, Kirstin, Keplinger, Tobias, Rüggeberg, Markus, Burgert, Ingo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Science + Business Media 01.05.2018; Springer Berlin Heidelberg; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Agriculture; Assembly; Atomic force microscopy; Atomic structure; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Cell Wall - ultrastructure; Cell walls; Cellulose; Cross-sections; cutting; Cutting parameters; Ecology; Forestry; image analysis; Indentation; Lamellar structure; Life Sciences; Macromolecules; Mechanical properties; mechanics; Microscopy; Microscopy, Atomic Force - methods; Nanoindentation; ORIGINAL ARTICLE; Picea; Picea - ultrastructure; Plant Sciences; Texture; Ultrastructure; wood; Wood - cytology; Wood - ultrastructure; X-Ray Diffraction; Spruce; AFM; Microfibril angle; Quantitative imaging mode; Indentation modulus; Concentric lamellar structure

The structural assembly of wood constituents within the secondary cell wall has been subject of numerous studies over the last decades, which has resulted in contradicting models on the spatial arrangement and orientation of the wood macromolecules. Here, we use multichannel atomic force microscopy...