To attain suitable representative peaks for the crystalline com-ponent of cellulose, nanocrystalline cellulose (NCC) prepared frombleached wood pulp (Dong, Revol, & Gray, 1998) was used as amodel compound in this study. In nature, cellulose does not occur asan individual molecule, it is composed of crystalline and amorphouscomponents. During NCC preparation, the amorphous regions ofcellulose are removed inducing a transverse cleavage of cellulosefibers into rodlike nanoparticles (Habibi, 2014).