Nanofibril is a term that keep confusing me when reading research articles. I always find it difficult to distinguish between nanofibril and nanofiber.
Dear Abdullahi Abbas Adam, according to the following website, they have the same meaning and use. My Regards
https://nanografi.com/blog/cellulose-nanofiber-also-known-as-cellulose-nanofibril/
Both fiber and fibril indicate long thread-like materials and their meanings are essentially the same. However, the word,"fibril," emphasizes a thin fiber. Therefore, the use of the word, "nano fibril," is rather redundant. The word,"fibril" is often used for distinguishing high temperature water vapor treated cellulose fibers that are spread into very thin fibers ifrom the whiskers prepared by the acid treatment of cellulosic materials. The word," microfibril" is more often used than "nano fibril." Some also use the word,"cellulose nanocrystal." Cellulose whiskers are single crystals of materials and a typical length is less than a micrometer (one of the longest cellulose whiskers can be prepared from a sea creature called tunicate), whereas the cellulose nano fibril has much longer length. This material is much easier to scale up whereas cellulose whiskers are not as easily scale up as the nano fibrils. The word fiber has no implication and it is simply a thread like object. Thus, even if the diameter is more than hundred micrometers, as long as the length is much longer (high aspect ratio), you may call it a fiber, whereas such a thick fiber is seldom called a fibril.
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