Rapid dissolution of spruce cellulose in H₂SO₄ aqueous solution at low temperature

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• 作者：Weijuan Huang ; Yixiang Wang ; Lina Zhang ; Lingyun Chen
• 关键词：Spruce cellulose ; Sulfuric acid ; Low ; temperature ; Rapid dissolution ; Regenerated cellulose film
• 刊名：Cellulose
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：23
• 期：6
• 页码：3463-3473
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• 刊物类别：Chemistry and Materials Science
• 刊物主题：Bioorganic Chemistry; Physical Chemistry; Organic Chemistry; Polymer Sciences;
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1572-882X
• 卷排序：23

文摘

Dissolution of cellulose is the key challenge in its applications. It has been discovered that spruce cellulose with high molecular weight (4.10 × 105 g mol−1) can be dissolved in 64 wt% H₂SO₄ aqueous solution at low temperature within 2 min, and the cellulose concentration in solution can reach as high as 5 % (w/v). FT-IR spectra and XRD spectra proved that it is a direct solvent for cellulose rather than a derivative aqueous solution system. The cold H₂SO₄ aqueous solution broke the hydrogen bonds among cellulose molecules and the low temperature dramatically slowed down the hydrolysis, which led to the dissolution of cellulose. The resultant cellulose solution was relatively stable, and the molecular weight of cellulose only slightly decreased after storage at −20 °C for 1 h. Due to the high molecular weight of cellulose, cellulose solution could form regenerated films with good mechanical properties and transparency at low concentration (2 % w/v). This work has not only provided the new evidence of cellulose dissolution which facilitated the development of cellulose solvent, but also suggested a convenient way to directly transfer cellulose with high molecular weight into materials without structure modifications.