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卷 25, 期 1, 页码 497-502出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/la802947m
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- JSPS [19550205]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [19550205] Funding Source: KAKEN
Phase separation phenomena of aqueous suspensions of cellulose nanocrystals have been studied for bacterial cellulose (BC) prepared by sulfuric acid hydrolysis. Suspensions at concentrations above 0.42 wt % separated into the isotropic and chiral nematic phases with a clear phase boundary. The shape and size distribution of BC nanocrystals in both the phases were determined by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and atomic force microscopy (AFM). The surface charge density was determined by conductometric titration. The effects of added NaCl (0-5.0 mM) on the phase separation behavior of the aqueous Suspensions were investigated for a fixed total cellulose concentration. Me volume fraction of the chiral nematic phase had a minimum value at a NaCl concentration of ca. 1.0 mM. At NaCl concentrations ranging from 2.0 to 5.0 mM, the suspensions did not separate into two phases, but became entirely liquid crystalline. The size of the ordered domains in the anisotropic phase decreased with an increase in the NaCl concentration from 0 to 2.75 mM. At 2.75 mM, only tactoids were observed in the entire region. At 5.0 mM, chiral nematic domains were no longer observed. The chiral nematic pitch decreased with increasing concentration of added NaCl, reached a minimum value at approximately 0.75 mM, and then increased sharply with the NaCl concentration up to 2.0 mM.
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