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Supplementary Information:

In vitro Biocompatibility of Electrospun Poly(ε-caprolactone)/ Cellulose Nanocrystals

Nanofibers for tissue engineering

Sayan Deb Dutta1+, Dinesh K. Patel2+, Yu-Ri Seo1, Jin-Woo Kim3, Jangho Kim4, Hoon Seonwoo5, Chan-Woo Park6, Seung-Hwan Lee6, Ki-Taek Lim1**

1Department of Biosystems Engineering, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon 24341, Republic of Korea.2The Institute of Forest Science, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon 24341, Republic of Korea.3Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Institute of Nanoscience and Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA.4Department of Rural and Biosystems Engineering, Chonnam National University, Gwangju 61186, Republic of Korea.5Department of Industrial Machinery Engineering, Sunchon National University, Sunchon 57922, Republic of Korea.6Department of Forest Biomaterials and Engineering, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon 24341, Republic of Korea.

Supplementary Figure 1. The photographs of the (a) pure rice husk, and (b) the chemically treated samples, and (c) CNCs suspension.

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Supplementary Figure 2. Spectroscopic characterization of pure rice husk and the chemically treated sample; (a) FTIR spectra, (b) TGA thermograms, and (c) SEM morphology (i & ii) of pure rice husk and the chemically treated sample, respectively.

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Supplementary Figure 3. Cell viability data of hMSCs in the presence of different CNCs concentration after 24 and 48 h of incubation. Results were represented as percentage of triplicate experiments (P*<0.05).