Nanocellulose has became the frontier and hotspots of cellulose science， which is a kind of natural materials with renewable and biodegradable properties. The literatures， NSFC’s foundation projects and patents regarding nanocellulose from 2001 to 2015 were analyzed in order to understand the domestic research progress and application status of nanocellulose， and the search keywords were “Nanocrystalline cellulose， Nanofibrillated cellulose， Microfibrillated cellulose， Bacterial cellulose & nano”. A total of 902 papers during 2001 to 2015 in CNKI， Wanfang Data， SCIE， EI and SIPO were retrieved. The retrieved results showed that the number of articles increased significantly after 2011， and the research on nanocellulose entered fast-growing stage. The number of patents on nanocellulose has gradually increased since 2010， especially for the patents of nanocrystalline cellulose and bacterial cellulose. The number of NSFC foundation projects on nanocellulose increased rapidly in 2011.
