Journal article
Increased solubility of plant core pulp cellulose for regenerated hydrogels through electron beam irradiation
FN Mohammad Padzil, S Gan, S Zakaria, SF Mohamad, NH Mohamed, YB Seo, AV Ellis
Cellulose | SPRINGER | Published : 2018
Abstract
High cellulose solubility is an essential to successful production of regenerated cellulose, from which hydrogels can be produced. Additionally, some pretreatment usually facilitates cellulose solubility. Bleached cellulose pulp from kenaf core (BK), consisting of lignin (0.3%), hemicellulose (5.2%) and ash (0%), was treated with an electron beam irradiation (EBI) at 10, 30, 50 and 70 kGy. The BK and irradiated bleached cellulose pulp (IK) were then dissolved in either sodium hydroxide/urea or lithium hydroxide/urea solvents which subsequently crosslinked with epichlorohydrin (ECH) solution to stabilize the formation of regenerated cellulose hydrogels. The amount of α-cellulose component in ..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The authors thank to research project's MRUN-2015-003, DIP 2016-004, the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia for MyBrainl5-MyPhD Scholarship for financial support and a Flinders International Research Fellowship for undertaking research at Flinders University of South Australia. Appreciation is given to the Centre for Research and Instrumentation Management (CRIM) at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) and the Research Centre at Chungnam National University (CNU) of Korea, the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI), Flinders University of South Australia, the Malaysia Agriculture Research Development Institute (MARDI) and the Forest Research Institute of Malaysia (FRIM) for providing research materials and testing facilities. In addition, thanks are given to the CNU bio-based materials laboratory members.