New composites of nanofibrillated cellulose (NFC) and ZnO nanoparticles (NP) have been prepared by
electrostatic assembly in aqueous medium and using polyelectrolytes as macromolecular linkers. Selected
NFC/ZnO systems were employed as fillers in starch based coating formulations for Eucalyptus globulusbased
paper sheets. Using this method, antibacterial paper with low content of ZnO (