“…Many efforts have been reported to alleviate or overcome the drawbacks related to filler addition, including fillers incorporating into the lumens and/or cell walls of pulp fibers (Klungness et al 2000), in situ precipitation of filler particles on fines/fibrils (Subramanian et al 2007, Subramanian et al 2008, using novel fillers such as starch-based biodegradable organic fillers, and fibrous/high-aspectratio inorganic fillers (Hu and Deng 2004, Mathur 2004, Mollaahmad 2008, Shen et al 2010, use of functional strengthening agents (Chen et al 2005, Fahmy and, fiber modification (Bratskaya et al 2006, Kang 2007, and filler modification (Gill 1992, Laleg et al 2008, Ibrahim et al 2009, Shen et al 2010, Marzbani et al 2016. In recent years, filler modification methods have been specially focusing on biodegradable and renewable carbohydrate polymers (such as starch, cellulose, and chitosan) as a promising procedure in papermaking (Yoon and Deng 2007, Zhao et al 2008, Nelson and Deng 2008, Shen et al 2009, Song et al 2009a, Song et al 2009b).…”