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Cellulose films have aroused widespread interest by virtue of its promising processing performance, biodegradability, and good final properties, but the insufficient waterproof property limits their application, especially in packaging field. Herein, hydrophobic modified graphene oxide nanosheets (GONS)/cellulose nanofiber (CNF) (H-mGONS/CNF) films with favourable water resistance was fabricated via successive casting technique and dip-coating process. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) manifested that highly oriented GONS/CNF nanocomposites were wrapped between the hydrophobic layers, forming a sandwich-like structure with a smooth surface and dense structure. This unique structure endows the H-mGONS/CNF composite films with excellent environmental characteristics, such as waterproofness, thermal stability, mechanical properties, self-cleaning and strong resistance to exfoliation. This work enables ecofriendly development of H-mGONS/CNF films with superior water repellency properties for many industrial applications including food packaging, biomedical products and protective coatings.
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The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 52102303, 52103095), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2019M650268), the Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province (Grant No. 2022JM-257), the Opening Project of State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering (Sichuan University) (Grant No. sklpme2021-05-09).
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 52102303, 52103095), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2019M650268), the Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province (Grant No. 2022JM-257), Supported by the Opening Project of State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering (Sichuan University) (Grant No. sklpme2021-05–09).
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Fang Ren: Investigation, Data curation, Conceptualization, Resources. Tong Wu: Writing—original draft, Writing—above review & editing. Jiale Zhang: Software. Zhenxia Lu: Investigation. Qian Duan: Writing—review & editing. Lu Pei: Validation. Penggang Ren: Methodology, Resources.
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Ren, F., Wu, T., Zhang, J. et al. Realization of water resistant, durable and self-cleaning on oriented cellulose nanocomposite packaging films. J Polym Res 30, 3 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10965-022-03366-y
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