Hybrid films of cellulose nanofibrils, chitosan and nanosilica : structural, thermal, optical, and mechanical properties |
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Author: | Ismail, Mostafa Y.1; Patanen, Minna2; Sirviö, Juho Antti1; |
Organizations: |
1Fibre and Particle Engineering, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 4300, FI-90014, Finland 2Nano and Molecular Systems Research Unit, Faculty of Science, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 3000, FI-90014, Finland 3UVSOR Synchrotron Facility, Institute for Molecular Science, Myodaiji, Okazaki, 444-8585, Japan |
Format: | article |
Version: | accepted version |
Access: | open |
Online Access: | PDF Full Text (PDF, 1.4 MB) |
Persistent link: | http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2019060618784 |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Elsevier,
2019
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Publish Date: | 2020-04-27 |
Description: |
AbstractOrganic-inorganic hybrid films were fabricated from cellulose nanofibrils (CNF) and nanosilica (5–30% wt) embedded in a chitosan (Chi) biopolymer matrix using a slow evaporation method. The self-standing films exhibited high strength and modulus up to 120 ± 5 MPa and 7.5 ± 0.4 GPa, respectively, which are remarkably high values for biopolymer/chitosan hybrids. Scanning electron microscopy showed that the nanosilica is formed of larger aggregates within the lamellar CNF network structure. This observation was further confirmed using synchrotron-based scanning transmission x-ray microscopy (STXM) with the capability to determine the spatial and chemical distribution analysis of the constituents of films. It is interesting that the thermal stability of the hybrid films improved as the nanosilica content increased. Furthermore, the nanosilica effectively filled the pores in the CNF network, thus decreasing the UV transmission and the visible light transmittance of the films. see all
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Series: |
Carbohydrate polymers |
ISSN: | 0144-8617 |
ISSN-E: | 1879-1344 |
ISSN-L: | 0144-8617 |
Volume: | 218 |
Pages: | 87 - 94 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.carbpol.2019.04.065 |
OADOI: | https://oadoi.org/10.1016/j.carbpol.2019.04.065 |
Type of Publication: |
A1 Journal article – refereed |
Field of Science: |
221 Nanotechnology 215 Chemical engineering 216 Materials engineering |
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Funding: |
We wish to acknowledge financial support from the I4Future doctoral program, which is part of the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 713606. |
EU Grant Number: |
(713606) I4FUTURE - Novel Imaging and Characterisation Methods in Bio, Medical, and Environmental Research and Technology Innovations |
Copyright information: |
© 2019. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. |
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |