Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 7, Issue 23, Pages 13022-13028Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b03091
Keywords
cellulose nanofibers; dry spinning; orientation; filament fibers; mechanical properties; banana rachis
Funding
- Bio4Energy
- ECLIPSE project [280786]
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We demonstrated that low-cost and environmentally friendly filaments of native cellulose can be prepared by dry spinning an aqueous suspension of cellulose nanoffbers (CNF). The CNF were extracted from banana rachis, a bioresidue from banana cultivation. The relationship between spinning rate, CNF concentration, and the mechanical properties of the filaments were investigated and the results showed that the modulus of the filaments was increased from 7.8 to 12.6 GPa and the strength increased from 131 to 222 MPa when the lowest concentration and highest speed was used. This improvement is believed to be due to an increased orientation of the CNF in the filament. A minimum concentration of 6.5 wt % was required for continuous filament spinning using the current setup. However, this relatively high concentration is thought to limit the orientation of the CNF in the filament. The process used in this study has a good potential for upscaling providing a continuous filament production with well-controlled speed, but further work is required to increase the orientation and subsequently the mechanical properties.
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