Acknowledgments
The authors would like to acknowledge the close collaboration of professors Amar K. Mohanty, Manjusri Misra and PhD student Rajendran Muthuraj from the Bioproducts Discovery and Development Centre (BBDC) of the University of Guelph, Canada. Thanks also to Innofibre from Cegep of Trois-Rivières, Canada, for providing and preparing the Kraft paper pulp. Finally we acknowledge the financial support from the AUTO21 Network Centre of Excellence of the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada and the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA).