[AEIM]Cl的合成及微波溶解微晶纤维素

以氯丙烯和N-乙基咪唑为原料合成了离子液体氯化1-烯丙基-3-乙基-咪唑盐([AEIM]Cl),利用FT-IR和¹HNMR对其化学结构进行了表征。采用微波加热法溶解微晶纤维素(MCC),考察 [AEIM]Cl对纤维素的溶解性能。研究了NaOH、微波和高压等3种预处理方式对微晶纤维素的相对结晶度、聚合度及溶解率的影响。利用FT-IR、XRD、TGA和SEM分别对溶解后得到的再生纤维素的化学结构、晶型变化、热稳定性及表观形貌进行测试与分析。结果表明,合成的离子液体是目标产物,对微晶纤维素表现出很好的溶解能力,且高温高压条件下15％的NaOH水溶液对微晶纤维素处理后,得到的纤维素相对结晶度最小,聚合度最低,溶解率最高。溶解过程中纤维素没有发生衍生化反应,溶解后得到的再生纤维素的相对结晶度和微晶尺寸变小,热稳定性降低。     

A study of the mechanical, thermal and morphological properties of microcrystalline cellulose particles prepared from cotton slivers using different acid concentrations

Microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) particles are mostly prepared by acid hydrolysis of various agro sources. Acid hydrolysis is usually carried out with high concentration (64 wt%) of sulfuric acid. Here, an attempt has been made to optimize lower acid concentrations which can effectively produce MCC particles. In this work, different concentrations of sulfuric acid (20, 30, 35, 40, 47 and 64 wt%) have been used to prepare MCC particles, which have been characterized by XRD, particle size analysis, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, nanoindentation and thermogravimetric analysis. MCC prepared with 35 and 47% sulfuric acid (MCC 35 and MCC 47) had finest particle size and fibrils were produced in the range of 15–25 nm. MCC 20 showed wide particle size distribution, indicating low breakdown of the cellulose chains. The energy absorption behavior and mechanical properties of the MCC pellets were determined by nanoindentation test for the first time. MCC 35 pellets exhibited lowest modulus and hardness.     

Cellulose/chitosan hybrid nanofibers from electrospinning of their ester derivatives

A facile approach has been established to generate cellulose/chitosan hybrid nanofibers with full range of compositions by electrospinning of their ester derivatives, cellulose acetate (CA) and dibutyryl chitin (DBC), followed by alkaline hydrolysis to cellulose (Cell) and chitosan (CS). DBC was synthesized by acid-catalyzed acylation of chitin (CHI) with butyric anhydride and the newly formed butyl groups on C3 and C6 were confirmed by FT-IR and ¹HNMR. DBC had robust solubility in acetone, DMAc, DMF, ethanol, and acetic acid, all except ethanol were also solvents for CA, allowing mixing of these ester derivatives. Fiber formation by electrospinning of either DBC or CA alone and together in these common solvents and their mixtures were studied. The 1/1 acetone/acetic acid was found to be the optimal solvent system to generate fibers from either DBC or CA as well as their mixtures at all CA/DBC ratios, resulting in hybrid fibers with diameters ranging from 30 to 350 nm. DBC and CA were well mixed and showed no phase separate in the hybrid fibers. Alkaline hydrolysis (NaOH) of the equal mass CA/DBC nanofibers regenerated Cell and CHI readily via O-deacylation, then proceeded to further deacetylate CHI to CS via N-deacetylation at higher alkaline concentrations and/or temperatures. Under conditions studied, hydrolysis with 5N NaOH at 100 °C for 3 h was optimal to regenerate cellulose/chitosan hybrid nanofibers.     

Effects of polymer concentration and coagulation temperature on the properties of regenerated cellulose films prepared from LiOH/urea solution

Aqueous 5 wt% LiOH/12 wt% urea solution pre-cooled to −12 °C has a more powerful ability to dissolve cellulose compared to that of NaOH/urea and NaOH/thiourea solution system. The influences of the cellulose concentration and coagulation temperature on the structure, pore size and mechanical properties of the cellulose films prepared from LiOH/urea system were investigated. The cellulose films exhibited good mechanical properties either at wet or dry state and their pore size and water permeability at wet state can be controlled by changing the cellulose concentration or coagulation temperature. With a decrease of the coagulation temperature, the mechanical properties and optical transmittance of the cellulose films enhanced, as a result of the formation of relative smaller pore size and denser structures. This work provided a promising way to prepare cellulose films with different pore sizes at wet state and good physical properties at dry state.     

Dissolution of Cellulose in Aqueous NaOH Solutions

Dissolution of a number of cellulose samples in aqueous NaOH was investigated with respect to the influence of molecular weight, crystalline form and the degree of crystallinity of the source samples. A procedure for dissolving microcrystalline cellulose was developed and optimized, and then applied to other cellulose samples of different crystalline forms, crystallinity indices and molecular weights. The optimum conditions involved swelling cellulose in 8–9 wt % NaOH and then freezing it into a solid mass by holding it at –20°C. This was followed by thawing the frozen mass at room temperature and diluting with water to 5% NaOH. All samples prepared from microcrystalline cellulose were completely dissolved in the NaOH solution by this procedure. All regenerated celluloses having either cellulose II or an amorphous structure prepared from linter cellulose and kraft pulps were also essentially dissolved in the aqueous NaOH by this process. The original linter cellulose, its mercerized form and cellulose III samples prepared from it had limited solubility values of only 26–37%, when the same procedure was applied. The differences in the solubility of the celluloses investigated have been interpreted in terms of the degrees to which some long-range orders present in solid cellulose samples have been disrupted in the course of pre- treatments.     

The dissolution of cellulose in NaOH-based aqueous system by two-step process

A new dissolution method, a two-step process, for cellulose in NaOH/urea aqueous system was investigated with ¹³C NMR, wide X-ray diffraction (WXRD), and solubility test. The two steps were as follows: (1) formation and swelling of a cellulose–NaOH complex and (2) dissolution of the cellulose–NaOH complex in aqueous urea solution. The dissolution mechanism could be described as strong interaction between cellulose and NaOH occurring in the aqueous system to disrupt the chain packing of original cellulose through the formation of new hydrogen bonds between cellulose and NaOH hydrates, and surrounding the cellulose–NaOH complex with urea hydrates to reduce the aggregation of the cellulose molecules. This leads to the improvement in solubility of the polymer and stability of the cellulose solutions. By using this two-step process, cellulose can be dissolved at 0–5 °C in contrast to the known process that requires −12 °C. Regenerated cellulose (RC) films with good mechanical properties and excellent optical transmittance were prepared successfully from the cellulose solution.     

Dissolution and regeneration of cellulose in NaOH/thiourea aqueous solution

A novel cellulose solvent, 1.5 M NaOH/0.65 M thiourea aqueous solution, was used to dissolve cotton linters having a molecular weight of 10.1 × 10⁴ to prepare cellulose solution. Regenerated cellulose (RC) films were obtained from the cellulose solution by coagulating with sulfuric acid (H₂SO₄) aqueous solution with a concentration from 2 to 30 wt %. Solubility of cellulose, structure, and mechanical properties of the RC films were examined by infrared spectroscopy, X‐ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, ¹³C NMR, and tensile tests. ¹³C NMR analysis indicated that the novel solvent of cellulose is a nonderivative aqueous solution system. The presence of thiourea enhanced significantly the solubility of cellulose in NaOH aqueous solution and reduced the formation of cellulose gel; as a result, thiourea prevented the association between cellulose molecules, leading to the solvation of cellulose. The RC film obtained by coagulating with 5 wt % H₂SO₄ aqueous solution for 5 min exhibited higher mechanical properties than that with other H₂SO₄ concentrations and a homogenous porous structure with a mean pore size of 186 nm for free surface in the wet state. The RC film plasticized with 10% glycerin for 5 min had a tensile strength of 107 MPa and breaking elongation of 10%, and about 1% glycerin in the RC film plays an important role in the enhancement of the mechanical properties. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part B: Polym Phys 40: 1521–1529, 2002     

纤维素溶剂研究进展

概述了纤维素溶剂的重要研究进展,主要包括N-甲基吗啉-N-氧化物(NMMO)在85℃以上高温可破坏纤维素分子间氢键,导致溶解;氯化锂/二甲基乙酰胺(LiCl/DMAc)在100℃以上可溶解纤维素;1-丁基-3-甲基咪唑盐酸盐([BMIM]Cl)和1-烯丙基-3-甲基咪唑盐酸盐([AMIM]Cl)离子液体,含强氢键受体Cl-离子,通过它们与纤维素羟基作用而引起溶解.氨基甲酸酯体系则是通过尿素与纤维素在100℃以上反应转变为纤维素氨基甲酸酯,然后再溶解于NaOH水溶液中;氢氧化钠/水体系,只能溶解结晶度和聚合度较低的纤维素;NaOH/尿素、NaOH/硫脲和LiOH/尿素水溶液体系,它们预冷至-5~-12℃后可迅速溶解纤维素.主要是通过低温产生小分子和大分子间新的氢键网络结构,导致纤维素分子内和分子间氢键的破坏而溶解,同时尿素或者硫脲作为包合物客体阻止纤维素分子自聚集使纤维素溶液较稳定.低温溶解技术不仅突破了加热溶解的传统方法,而且可推进化学"绿色化"进程.共引用参考文献50篇.     

Study on the interaction between urea and cellulose by combining solid-state 13C CP/MAS NMR and extended Hückel charges

In this article, solid-state ¹³C CP/MAS NMR combined with extended Hückel charges was applied to investigate the interaction between urea and cellulose in the NaOH/urea aqueous solvent system. Direct experimental evidence was provided to support the interaction between urea and cellulose. The solid-state ¹³C CP/MAS NMR results revealed that complicated complexes are formed by urea, NaOH and cellulose in the solution. Excess urea exists in a free state, which explains why 7 wt% NaOH/12 wt% urea/81 wt% H₂O is the optimal ratio selection to dissolve cellulose. Based on the correlation in which the computed extended Hückel charge on carbon of urea is approximately inversely proportional to its ¹³C chemical shift, a possible interaction model of cellulose, NaOH and urea was proposed. Interactions exist between any two of urea, NaOH and cellulose, which results in the cellulose chain being surrounded by NaOH and urea molecules. NaOH and urea may be in the same surface layer of cellulose chains.     

Dissolution of chitin in aqueous KOH

Our NMR experiments show that chitin can dissolve well in aqueous KOH through a freeze-thawing process, and the dissolution power of the alkali solvent systems is in the order of KOH > NaOH > LiOH aqueous solution, which is totally contrary to that of cellulose in the alkali aqueous solution (i.e., LiOH > NaOH ? KOH). In this work, we systematically study the dissolution process in KOH and KOH/urea aqueous solutions. Chitin has good solubility (solubility ~80 %) in 8.4–25 wt% KOH aqueous solution at ?30 °C. The role of urea also has been investigated: unlike aqueous chitin-NaOH solutions, urea indeed enhances the solubility of chitin in KOH aqueous solutions, but the increased degree becomes unobtrusive with decreasing temperature and increasing dissolution time; the DA decline curves of chitin-KOH and chitin-KOH/urea aqueous solutions are nearly overlapping, indicating that the effect of the urea on the degree of acetylation of chitin in KOH aqueous solutions is small, similar to the NaOH/urea solvent.     

Dissolution of cellulose in ethylene diamine/salt solvent systems

Investigation of the dissolution of cellulose in Ethylene Diamine (EDA)/Potassium thiocyanate (KSCN) solutions by infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and thermal analysis (DSC) indicated that changes to the solvent during freeze thaw cycling of mixtures was consistent with increased interaction between cellulose and solvent. Thermal transitions in the system, however, occurred at temperatures outside the range used in thermal cycling to promote dissolution. Further exploration of the dissolution and mixing process indicated that mixing was the limiting step in solution formation. The dissolution of two types of cellulose with different molecular weights (Degree of Polymerization (DP)=210 and >1000) was studied using EDA/KSCN solution as the solvent. The solubility and the dissolution rate of cellulose depended on both the solvent composition and cellulose molecular weight. Cellulose could dissolve faster in the solvent with lower salt concentration but the highest cellulose concentration was obtained in the solvent with 30~35% KSCN. Rheological measurements showed that cellulose solutions exhibited viscous solution behavior at low KSCN concentration but primarily elastic behavior at high salt concentration.     

The dissolution of microcrystalline cellulose in sodium hydroxide-urea aqueous solutions

It has been reported that cellulose is better dissolved in NaOH-water when a certain amount of urea is added. In order to understand the mechanisms of this dissolution and the interactions between the components, the binary phase diagram of urea/water, the ternary urea/NaOH/water phase diagram and the influence of the addition of microcrystalline cellulose in urea/NaOH/water solutions were studied by DSC. Urea/water solutions have a simple eutectic behaviour with a eutectic compound formed by pure urea and ice (one urea per eight water moles), melting at −12.5 °C. In the urea/NaOH/water solutions, urea and NaOH do not interact, each forming their own eutectic mixtures, (NaOH + 5H₂O, 4H₂O) and (urea, 8H₂O), as found in their binary mixtures. When the amount of water is too low to form the two eutectic mixtures, NaOH is attracting water at the expense of urea. In the presence of microcrystalline cellulose, the interactions between cellulose and NaOH/water are exactly the same as without urea, and urea is not interacting with cellulose. A tentative explanation of the role of urea is to bind water, making cellulose-NaOH links more stable. Member of the European Polysaccharide Network of Excellence (EPNOE),     

EDTA滴定法测定萤石中氟化钙含量的方法改进

建立了EDTA滴定法测定矿石中氟化钙的方法。引入了钙乙酸为溶解试样的溶剂,溶解样品中的碳酸钙,同时,通过同离子效应减少氟化钙的溶解度。实验中探究了钙离子的浓度与氟化钙溶解度的关系,通过对比实验确定选择了含钙乙酸的最佳浓度(10g/L)。同时,对实验中的其他条件也进行了相应的探究与优化,确定最佳实验条件为:最小称样量为0.5g,洗涤沉淀用水量为50mL左右,第二次过滤时的洗涤次数为8～10次,滴定时加入氢氧化钾的量为20mL。方法的精密度(0.10%)和准确度(0.08%)皆能满足实验要求。     

Structural Changes and Activation of Cellulose by Caustic Soda Solution with Urea

Investigations on the activation of cellulose by mixed solutions of caustic soda and urea are reported. The structural effects of those solutions on various dissolving pulps are studied by ¹³C-CP/MAS-NMR spectroscopy. In a series of steeping lyes, the concentration of NaOH was varied in a range from 0% to 8% and the urea-concentration in a range from 15% to 40% at ambient temperature and −25 °C. Using solely the single NaOH or urea solutions in the concentration ranges given above, no or only minor structural changes were found. In contrast to that, the cellulose I structure was partially or completely destroyed by using the bicomponent solution with urea added to caustic soda. The structural effect of the bicomponent solutions is comparable with the effect of solely caustic soda solutions of approx. 10% to 18% NaOH. However, the ¹³C-CP/MAS-NMR-spectra from the bicomponent pretreated samples indicate a structure different from the usual ordered structures of sodium cellulose I or II, namely a special urea-NaOH-cellulose complex. The results show that for cellulose activation the NaOH concentration of the caustic soda can be remarkably reduced by adding urea. The improved activating effect of an optimized caustic soda solution with added urea was proved to be useful for the synthesis of cellulose carbamate.     

A Study on the Preparation,Structure, and Properties of Microcrystalline Cellulose

Abstract

The preparation, structure, and properties of microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) from rice straw were investigated by IR, x-ray, viscometry, polarizing microscope, SEM, etc. The results are as follows:

1. The leveling-off degree of polymerization (LODP) obtained from rice straw is about 80–150. The dimensions of MCC granules are 20–30 μm length, 0.5–0.8 μm thick, and the crystallinity is about 80%.

2. The aqueous suspension of a certain concentration of MCC can form a gel under the effect of shear force. The viscosity of MCC gel increased with an increasing content of MCC in water. A sharper increase of viscosity occurred in the 3–6% range.

3. The addition of one or two valence salts into the MCC gel increased the viscosity.

4. The viscosity of MCC gel has its maximum value at pH 8.

5. The MCC gel as an emulsifying agent can form a stable emulsion in the oil/water system when the ratio of oil/water is below 6/4.     

Facile in situ synthesis of nickel/cellulose nanocomposites: mechanisms,properties and perspectives

Nickel/cellulose nanocomposites with tunable magnetic behavior and electrical conductivity were fabricated by a facile in situ synthesis route with aqueous NaOH/urea solution as the solvent to dissolve and regenerate cellulose. It was found that Ni particles are uniformly dispersed in and immobilized by cellulose matrix, which indicates that regenerated cellulose fibers with coarse surface might act as templates to modulate the growth of Ni nanoparticles. Moreover, the size and morphology of Ni nanoparticles as well as the magnetic and conductive properties of Ni/cellulose nanocomposites is dependent on the concentration of Ni²⁺ in NaOH/urea aqueous solution. With an increase in the concentration of Ni²⁺ from 0.2 to 1.0 mol/L, the values of saturation magnetization increased from 16.6 to 38.5 emu/g, while the resistance decreased from 10⁶ to 10^?2 Ω cm. Particularly, multi-layer sample exhibits good absorption capacity and an additional effective bandwidth in the low-frequency region, showing promising potential as candidate electromagnetic functional fabric and cloth.     

Enhanced reinforcement efficiency in a hybrid microcrystalline cellulose–SiO2 filler for the tire tread composites

Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology - Microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) was swollen by NaOH aqueous solution and was incompletely dried to form a thin layer of NaOH solution around it. This...     

Homogenous synthesis of hydroxyethylcellulose in NaOH/urea aqueous solution

Hydroxyethylcellulose (HEC) was synthesized by a fully homogenous method from cellulose in 7.5 wt.-% NaOH/11 wt.-% urea aqueous solutions under mild conditions. HEC samples were characterized with NMR, SEC-LLS, solubility, and viscosity measurements. The MS and DS values of the obtained HEC samples are in the range from 0.54 to 1.44 and 0.45 to 1.14, respectively, and the relative DS values at C-2 and C-6 hydroxyl groups are slightly higher than those at C-3 hydroxyl groups. HEC samples are soluble in water starting from a MS of 0.57 and DS of 0.49, which display high viscosity in aqueous solutions. Moreover, a NaOH/urea aqueous solution is a stable system for cellulose etherification. In this way, we could provide a simple, pollution-free, and homogeneous aqueous solution system for synthesizing cellulose ethers.     

NMR spectroscopic studies on the mechanism of cellulose dissolution in alkali solutions

It was considered that the dissolution of cellulose in alkali solutions is mainly due to the breakage of hydrogen bonds. As an alkali hydroxide, KOH can provide OH^? just like LiOH and NaOH; but it is well known that LiOH and NaOH can dissolve cellulose, whereas KOH can only swell cellulose. The inability of KOH to dissolve cellulose was investigated and the mechanism of cellulose dissolving in alkali solutions was proposed. The dissolution behavior of cellulose and cellobiose in LiOH, NaOH and KOH were studied by means of ¹H and ¹³C NMR as well as longitudinal relaxation times. The structure and properties of the three alkali solutions were compared. The results show that alkali share the same interaction mode with cellobiose and with the magnitude of LiOH > NaOH > KOH; the alkalis influence the structure of water also in the same order LiOH > NaOH > KOH. The different behavior of the three alkalis lies in the different structure of the cation hydration ions. Li⁺ and Na⁺ can form two hydration shells, while K⁺ can only form loose first hydration shell. The key to the alkali solution can or cannot dissolve cellulose is whether the cation hydration ions can form stable complex with cellulose or not. K⁺ cannot form stable complex with cellulose result in the KOH solution can only swell cellulose.     

Novel Fibers Prepared from Cellulose in NaOH/Urea Aqueous Solution

Summary: Novel regenerated cellulose fibers have been successfully spun from the cellulose dope in NaOH/urea aqueous solution, which could rapidly dissolve cellulose. The fibers possess circular cross‐sections as well as relatively high molecular weight, and a crystallinity index with cellulose II family crystal structure, leading to good mechanical properties. This technology is simple, cheap, and environmentally friendly, promising to substitute for viscose rayon production having hazardous byproducts.

SEM micrograph of the cross‐section of the novel cellulose fibers generated here.