ISSN:
0021-8995
Keywords:
Chemistry
;
Polymer and Materials Science
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
,
Physics
Notes:
Several microcrystalline celluloses prepared from viscose staple, bagasse, ramie, and cotton were evaluated by viscosimetry, X-ray diffraction and scanning and transmission electron microscopies. The changes in crystallinity, size of crystallites, grain-size distribution, morphological features, and degree of polymerization were found to be dependent on and greatly limited by the polymorphic conformations of cellulose. These changes were more conspicuous in cellulose II than in cellulose I. The coexistence of a two-phase system still remains in all the specimens of microcrystalline cellulose powders. Combining the findings with respect to the extent of the changes in the size of crystallites, it appears inevitable that recrystallization in some of the defective crystallites and degradation in the disordered areas of cellulose occurs simultaneously in the preliminary hydrolysis process during the production of microcrystalline cellulose. © 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Additional Material:
3 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
