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    Effect of Source on the Properties and Behavior of Cellulose Nanocrystal Suspensions

    Year: 2018

    Journal: ACS Sustain. Chem. Eng., Volume 6, JUL, page 8317–8324

    Authors: Schutz, Christina; Van Rie, Jonas; Eyley, Samuel; Gencer, Alican; van Gorp, Hans; Rosenfeldt, Sabine; Kang, Kyongok; Thielemans, Wim

    Organizations: Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO) under the Odysseus program Grant [G.0060.13 N]; KU Leuven [OT/14/072]; Province of West-Vlaanderen-Belgium (W.T.'s Provincial Chair in Advanced Materials); Alexander von Humboldt Foundation through a Feodor Lynen scholarship

    Keywords: Cellulose nanocrystals; Rheology; Liquid crystals; Phase separation; Diffusion coefficients

    Sulfuric acid hydrolysis of native cellulose fibers results in colloidally stable suspensions of cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs). We have investigated the effect of the cellulose source on the suspension properties of CNCs extracted from cotton and wood sources using a comparable preparation strategy. The structural properties were revealed to be similar within the given standard deviation and prevalent polydispersity, whereas other properties such as liquid crystalline phase behavior, viscosity, diffusion coefficients, and surface tension were found to differ significantly. This study shows that ostensibly similar suspensions may exhibit rather differing behaviors and attempts to interpret this phenomenon. This finding shows that full characterization and a detailed description of the preparation of the nanocrystals used in publications are extremely important and should be reported in detail in all instances.
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