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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 19, Issue 6, Pages 4360-4369Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c6cp08219j
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- Wallenberg Wood Science Center
- Swedish Research Council (VR)
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The organization of water molecules adsorbed onto cellulose and the supramolecular hydrated structure of microfibril aggregates represents, still today, one of the open and complex questions in the physical chemistry of natural polymers. Here, we investigate by H-2 MAS NMR the mobility of water molecules in carefully H-2-exchanged, and thereafter re-dried, microcrystalline cellulose. By subtracting the spectral contribution of deuteroxyls from the spectrum of hydrated cellulose, we demonstrate the existence of two distinct (H2O)-H-2 spectral populations associated with mobile and immobile water environments, between which the water molecules do not exchange at the NMR observation time scale. We conclude that those two water phases are located at differently-accessible adsorption sites, here assigned to the cellulose surfaces between and within the microfibril aggregates, respectively. The superior performance of H-2 MAS NMR encourages further applications of the same method to other complex systems that expose heterogeneous hygroscopic surfaces, like wood cell walls.
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