Cellulose

, Volume 21, Issue 6, pp 4359–4368 | Cite as

Facile in situ synthesis of nickel/cellulose nanocomposites: mechanisms, properties and perspectives

  • C. H. Gong
  • X. X. Wang
  • H. J. Liu
  • C. Zhao
  • Y. D. Zhang
  • Y. S. Jia
  • H. J. Meng
  • J. W. Zhang
  • Z. J. Zhang
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Abstract

Nickel/cellulose nanocomposites with tunable magnetic behavior and electrical conductivity were fabricated by a facile in situ synthesis route with aqueous NaOH/urea solution as the solvent to dissolve and regenerate cellulose. It was found that Ni particles are uniformly dispersed in and immobilized by cellulose matrix, which indicates that regenerated cellulose fibers with coarse surface might act as templates to modulate the growth of Ni nanoparticles. Moreover, the size and morphology of Ni nanoparticles as well as the magnetic and conductive properties of Ni/cellulose nanocomposites is dependent on the concentration of Ni2+ in NaOH/urea aqueous solution. With an increase in the concentration of Ni2+ from 0.2 to 1.0 mol/L, the values of saturation magnetization increased from 16.6 to 38.5 emu/g, while the resistance decreased from 106 to 10−2 Ω cm. Particularly, multi-layer sample exhibits good absorption capacity and an additional effective bandwidth in the low-frequency region, showing promising potential as candidate electromagnetic functional fabric and cloth.

Keywords

Nickel nanoparticles Cellulose Nanocomposite Magnetic properties 
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Acknowledgments

This work was financially supported by the research project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (50902045/E0213, 20971037/B0111, and 21271063) and Science and Technology Department of Henan Province (Grant No. 114300510033).

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Authors and Affiliations

  • C. H. Gong
    • 1
    • 2
  • X. X. Wang
    • 1
    • 2
  • H. J. Liu
    • 1
    • 2
  • C. Zhao
    • 2
  • Y. D. Zhang
    • 1
  • Y. S. Jia
    • 2
  • H. J. Meng
    • 1
    • 2
  • J. W. Zhang
    • 2
  • Z. J. Zhang
    • 2
  1. 1.College of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringHenan UniversityKaifengChina
  2. 2.Key Laboratory for Special Functional Materials of Ministry of EducationHenan UniversityKaifengChina

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