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ACS MACRO LETTERS
Volume 7, Issue 2, Pages 172-177Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.7b00964
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- Wallenberg Wood Science Center
- Swedish Research Council (VR)
- Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF)
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We have followed the structural evolution during evaporation-induced self-assembly of sulfonated cellulose nanocrystal (CNC) in the presence of H+ and Li+ counterions by small-angle X-ray scattering. Drying of CNC-H dispersions results in ordered films that could not be readily redispersed, while the CNC-Li films were disordered and prone to reswelling and redispersion. The scaling of the separation distance (d) between CNC particles and the particle concentration (c) shows that the CNC-H dispersions display a unidimensional contraction of the nematic structure (d alpha c(-1)) during drying, while the CNC-Li dispersions consolidate isotropically (d alpha c(-1/3)), which is characteristic for hydrogels with no preferential orientation. Temporal evolution of the structure factor and complementary dynamic light-scattering measurements show that CNC-Li is more aggregated than CNC-H during evaporation-induced assembly. Insights on the structural evolution during CNC assembly and redispersion can promote development of novel and optimized processing routes of nanocellulose-based materials.
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