1. Guest Editorial; First Biannual Gordon Conference on the Chemistry of Polysaccharides

   Editorial Introduction Pages: 181 - 182

2. Localization of Iα and Iβ phases in algal cellulose revealed by acid treatments

   • Masahisa Wada
   • Takeshi Okano

   OriginalPaper Pages: 183 - 188

3. Chemical conversion of cellulose as treated in supercritical methanol

   • Yoichi Ishikawa
   • Shiro Saka

   OriginalPaper Pages: 189 - 195

4. The Young's modulus of a microcrystalline cellulose

   • S.J. Eichhorn
   • R.J. Young

   OriginalPaper Pages: 197 - 207

5. On the accessibility and structure of xylan in birch kraft pulp

   • Anita Teleman
   • Per Tomas Larsson
   • Tommy Iversen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 209 - 215

6. Characterisation of the surface of a cellulosic multi-purpose office paper by inverse gas chromatography

   • J.M.R.C.A. Santos
   • M.H. Gil
   • J.T. Guthrie

   OriginalPaper Pages: 217 - 224

7. Determination of the degree of substitution (DS) of mixed cellulose esters by elemental analysis

   • C. Vaca-Garcia
   • M.E. Borredon
   • A. Gaseta

   OriginalPaper Pages: 225 - 231

8. Graft copolymerization of 4-vinylpyridine onto cellulose using Co (III) acetylacetonate comlex in aqueous medium

   • K.C. Gupta
   • Sujata Sahoo

   OriginalPaper Pages: 233 - 242