Effect of post-synthetic processing conditions on structural variations and applications of bacterial cellulose |
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Authors: | Mazhar Ul-Islam Waleed Ahmad Khattak Minkyung Kang Sang Min Kim Taous Khan Joong Kon Park |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Chemical Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, 702-701, Korea 2. Department of Pharmacy, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan
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Abstract: | Physicochemical properties of materials can be amended by altering their physical structure through different processing conditions. The present study was conducted to investigate the post-synthesis structural variations and physico-mechanical properties of bacterial cellulose (BC) sheets prepared using different drying methods. Wet BC sheets of the same origin were freeze dried (BC-FD), dried at room temperature (25 °C) (BC-DRT), and dried at elevated temperature (50 °C) (BC-DHT). FE-SEM micrographs revealed that BC-DRT and BC-DHT had a more tightly packed and compact structure than the loosely held fibrils of BC-FD. XRD analysis revealed the relative crystallinity of the BC sample to be 64.60, 59.16, and 47.20 % for BC-DHT, BC-DRT and BC-FD, respectively. The water holding capacity (WHC) of the BC-FD was higher than that of the other two samples. Four consecutive drying and rewetting cycles demonstrated that the WHC of all samples decreased with each cycle. The WHC of BC-DRT and BC-DHT was reduced to almost 0 after the first drying cycle, but the BC-FD samples were able to regain some of their WHC. The tensile strength and elongation modulus were in the order of BC-DHT > BC-DRT > BC-FD. Overall, the results of this study revealed that the post-synthetic processing conditions had a strong effect on the structure and physico-mechanical properties of BC. |
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