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Strong aqueous gels of cellulose nanofibers and nanowhiskers isolated from softwood flour
Luleå University of Technology.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3449-8233
Luleå University of Technology.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8909-3554
Luleå University of Technology, Department of Engineering Sciences and Mathematics, Material Science.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4762-2854
2011 (English)In: TAPPI Journal, ISSN 0734-1415, Vol. 10, no 2, p. 42565-Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Two nanocelluloses (cellulose nanofibers [CNF] and nanowhiskers [CNW]) were extracted from softwood flour using chemical refining followed either by mechanical fibrillation or acid hydrolysis. The CNF slurry formed an opaque gel that exhibited highly coiled and entangled long fibers with widths between 10 and 20 nm when studied using atomic force microscopy (AFM). The aqueous suspension of the CNW formed a transparent gel with unique morphology of rigid and uniform, whiskerlike structures with widths as low as 1.5-3 nm and lengths in micrometer levels. The viscoelastic properties of these hydrogels with solids content of 0.2 wt% were measured using dynamic rheology experiments. The elastic modulus (G') and viscous modulus (G '') were frequency independent in the low-frequency region. Furthermore, G' was almost 10-fold higher than G '', showing a typical elastic gel behavior. The lower crystallinity obtained from X-ray analysis indicated that the unique structure of CNW from wood could be attributed to the native cellulose being partly dissolved and regenerated during acid hydrolysis.

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2011. Vol. 10, no 2, p. 42565-
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Bio Materials
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Wood and Bionanocomposites
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URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-14141DOI: 10.32964/tj10.2.7ISI: 000287603500001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-79960014304Local ID: d7a1d520-082e-11e0-b767-000ea68e967bOAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-14141DiVA, id: diva2:987095
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Validerad; 2011; 20101215 (krioks);

Funders: The authors gratefully acknowledge Kempe Foundation in Sweden as well as VINNOVA under the nanofiber project and the European Commission for financial support under contract number 210037, FP7-NMP-2007 WOODY.

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