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Crystalline Cellulose and Derivatives

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Pure cellulose exists in several crystalline polymorphs (Hayashi et al. 1975; Sarko 1986) with different packing arrangements. The unit cells or the diffraction patterns of these crystalline structures represent a quantity which mirrors these differences. The unit cells are listed in Table 5.1. The conformation and packing of the cellulose chains are necessary quantities for a complete description of the polymorphs to evaluate their differences in behavior and properties. However, the determination of the cellulose structures is difficult to achieve, with only a few X-ray reflections often observed at low diffraction angles. Nevertheless, these few observed data normally suffice for the determination of the unit cell. Small differences in the size of the unit cells of the same polymorph are found in studies of various cellulose species and by various authors for the same species and may be caused by differences in supermolecular, i.e., morphological structures.

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(2008). Cellulose. In: Crystalline Cellulose and Derivatives. Springer Series in Wood Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73934-0_5

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