This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved Special Issue Article Gelation of Crystalline Nanocellulose in the Presence of Hydroxyethyl Cellulose † Gilles Lenfant 1 , Marie-Claude. Heuzey 1 , Theo G. M. van de Ven 2 , Pierre J. Carreau 1 1 Department of Chemical Engineering, CREPEC, Polytéchnique Montreal, Montreal, QC, H3T 1J4, Canada 2 Department of Chemistry, Pulp and Paper Research Center, McGill University, Montreal, QC, H3A 2A7, Canada Corresponding author: pcarreau@polymtl.ca Tél.: (514) 340-4711 # 4924 † This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as doi: [10.1002/cjce.22846] Received 21 November 2016; Revised 31 January 2017; Accepted 28 February 2017 The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved DOI 10.1002/cjce.22846