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Morphological and property investigations of carboxylated cellulose nanofibers extracted from different biological species

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Carboxylated cellulose nanofibers were extracted from different biological species, including cotton, spruce wood, bamboo and bacterial cellulose, through a combined (2,2,6,6-tetramethyl- piperidine-1-yl)oxyl (TEMPO)-mediated oxidation and mechanical defibrillation treatment. The cross-section dimensions of isolated cellulose nanofibers in suspension were characterized by small-angle X-ray scattering, where the results were in agreement with the transmission electron microscopy measurement. For the spruce wood samples, the effects of three experimental variables in the combined TEMPO-oxidation and mechanical treatment on the dimensions and degree of oxidation of the resulting cellulose nanofibers were quantitatively investigated.

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The financial support for this work was provided by the SusChEM program of the National Science Foundation (DMR-1409507). The authors thank the NSLS and the CFN at BNL for granting access to the synchrotron beam and TEM facilities. We thank Drs. Lin Yang and Vito Graziano for their assistance at Beamline X9, and Mr. Kim Kisslinger at CFN for his assistance with the TEM observations. We are also grateful to Mr. Wen-Hung (Chester) Chang from the Hainan NAYA company for providing bacterial cellulose samples and Dr. Tong Wang of the Biology Department at BNL for assisting the TEM sample preparation.

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    Ying Su, Christian Burger, Hongyang Ma, Benjamin Chu & Benjamin S. Hsiao

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Su, Y., Burger, C., Ma, H. et al. Morphological and property investigations of carboxylated cellulose nanofibers extracted from different biological species. Cellulose 22, 3127–3135 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-015-0698-8

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