Effect of Source on the Properties and Behavior of Cellulose Nanocrystal Suspensions

Christina Schütz; Jonas Van Rie; Samuel Eyley; Alican Gençer; Hans Van Gorp; Sabine Rosenfeldt; Kyongok Kang; Wim Thielemans

doi:10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b00334

Effect of Source on the Properties and Behavior of Cellulose Nanocrystal Suspensions

Christina Schütz, Jonas Van Rie, Samuel Eyley, Alican Gençer, Hans Van Gorp, Sabine Rosenfeldt, Kyongok Kang, Wim Thielemans

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Abstract

Sulfuric acid hydrolysis of native cellulose fibers results in colloidally stable suspensions of cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs). We have investigated the effect of the cellulose source on the suspension properties of CNCs extracted from cotton and wood sources using a comparable preparation strategy. The structural properties were revealed to be similar within the given standard deviation and prevalent polydispersity, whereas other properties such as liquid crystalline phase behavior, viscosity, diffusion coefficients, and surface tension were found to differ significantly. This study shows that ostensibly similar suspensions may exhibit rather differing behaviors and attempts to interpret this phenomenon. This finding shows that full characterization and a detailed description of the preparation of the nanocrystals used in publications are extremely important and should be reported in detail in all instances.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	8317-8324
Number of pages	8
Journal	ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering
Volume	6
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b00334
Publication status	Published - 2 Jul 2018

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Funding Information:
Financial support for this work was provided by Research Foundation−Flanders (FWO) under the Odysseus program Grant G.0C60.13 N, KU Leuven (Grant OT/14/072), and the Province of West-VlaanderenBelgium (W.T.’s Provincial Chair in Advanced Materials). C.S. thanks the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for financial support through a Feodor Lynen scholarship. The authors are thankful to Prof. Dr. Jan Dhont for fruitful discussions and Dr. Hartmut Kriegs for assistance with the depolarized dynamic light scattering measurements. Prof. Dr. Jan Lagerwall is thanked for the use of the polarized light microscope.

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Funding

Financial support for this work was provided by Research Foundation−Flanders (FWO) under the Odysseus program Grant G.0C60.13 N, KU Leuven (Grant OT/14/072), and the Province of West-VlaanderenBelgium (W.T.’s Provincial Chair in Advanced Materials). C.S. thanks the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for financial support through a Feodor Lynen scholarship. The authors are thankful to Prof. Dr. Jan Dhont for fruitful discussions and Dr. Hartmut Kriegs for assistance with the depolarized dynamic light scattering measurements. Prof. Dr. Jan Lagerwall is thanked for the use of the polarized light microscope.

Keywords

Cellulose nanocrystals
Diffusion coefficients
Liquid crystals
Phase separation
Rheology

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General Chemistry
Environmental Chemistry
General Chemical Engineering
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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