Abstract: | Hydrogels with high water retention can be produced from cotton cellulose. Treating aqueous suspensions of microcrystalline cellulose, lint, and powdered cellulose with mechanical pulses of various frequencies, amplitudes, and shear stresses turns them into gels.Nizami Tashkent State Pedagogical University, fax (3712)-54-92-17. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 1, pp. 71–73, January–February, 2000. |