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Cellulose
Published in: Cellulose 7/2019

02-04-2019 | Original Research

Facile preparation of fluorescence-labelled nanofibrillated cellulose (NFC) toward revealing spatial distribution and the interface

Authors: Yongsheng Zhao, Wanbin Dang, Qiong Ma, Yanling Zhu

Published in: Cellulose | Issue 7/2019

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Abstract

Nanofibrillated cellulose (NFC) has been widely used in bio-composites and plays a critical role of interface phase in determining the final physical properties. However, it remains difficult to directly observe NFC and its network-like phase within its related composite. Herein, we report a facile and low-cost approach to visualize three-dimensional (3D) distribution of NFC and its interfacial morphology with confocal laser scanning microscopy. In this work, coumarin-3-carboxylic acid (C3) was chemically linked with TEMPO-oxidized nanofibrillated cellulose (TNFC) via amidation process with the aid of ethylenediamine, leading to the formation of fluorescent labelled nanocellulose (TNFC-C3). TNFC-C3 was then compounded with poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) as a reinforcing nanofiller because of abundant molecular hydrogen-bonding interactions. The spatial distribution and interfacial bonding characteristics of TNFC in composites were investigated. Fluorescence scanning shows a clear 3D network structure of TNFC-C3 in TNFC-C3/PVA composite. More importantly, TNFC-C3/PVA composites show increased mechanical strength from 7.5 to 23.2 MPa with the increase of TNFC-C3 content, indicating that a small number of C3-grafting result in high-quality of fluorescence resolution without sacrificing molecular interactions and reinforcing effect.

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Metadata
Title
Facile preparation of fluorescence-labelled nanofibrillated cellulose (NFC) toward revealing spatial distribution and the interface
Authors
Yongsheng Zhao
Wanbin Dang
Qiong Ma
Yanling Zhu
Publication date
02-04-2019
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Published in
Cellulose / Issue 7/2019
Print ISSN: 0969-0239
Electronic ISSN: 1572-882X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-019-02404-1

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