Cellulose substrates are increasingly used as supports and fillers in medicine, as membranes and components of organic sensors. In the present paper the WAXS as well as SEM, TEM, XRF, EDXA, ESCA, FTIR, Raman, and I3C NMR were used to study methods of metal clusters intercalation (taking as an example silver clusters) into the cellulose matrix and changes of cellulose structure in the resulting samples in bulk after this intercalation. Clusters in matrix can be formed simultaneously with the appearance of the metal phase proper on the cellulose surface. Some paths for intercalation of regularly distributed highly dispersed metal particles are shown.
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