ABSTRACT
The family of polysaccharides is characterized by a common morphology composed of alternating crystalline and amorphous zones. Nowadays, industrial opportunities for natural polysaccharide nanocrystals are under development around the world. Despite all benefits, the applicability of the polysaccharide nanoparticles faces significant difficulties resulting from their inherent hydrophilicity – the basis for incompatibility and bad dispersibility within most polymer matrixes. The development of polysaccharidereinforced nanocomposites was mainly restricted to hydrophilic media as these nanocharges possess inherent hydrophilicity and aggregate in hydrophobic media. In terms of chemistry, grafting is an often-used modification method through which polymers are introduced to a surface. In grafting onto, usually end-functionalized preformed polymer chains of known molecular characteristics are covalently attached to a hydroxyl groups of a substrate.
