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We report an FTIR method to measure the accessibility and the size of cellulose microfibrils from the cell wall of Valonia ventricosa. This method is similar to the conventional deuteration technique for measuring the accessibility of cellulosic materials; however, the difference in our method is that the hydroxyl groups O2H, O3H, and O6H in the crystalline region were initially completely deuterated. The sample was then rehydrogenated by soaking in water at 25 °C, so that the OD groups on the surface were rehydrogenated. The ratio of OH to OD absorbance was used to calculate the number of surface vs. core cellulose chains in a microfibril. The obtained experimental ratio of 0.934 was consistent with the value calculated for a previously published 33 × 38 chain Valonia model (Sugiyama et al. 1984). The rehydrogenation process was further investigated by immersing the sample in water at elevated temperatures. At temperatures above 120 °C, rehydrogenation was more efficient, and the efficiency plots vs. rehydrogenation temperature showed two inflection. These points may correspond to the temperature where the cleavage of inter-chain hydrogen bonds and/or crystalline-phase transition would have been occurred.
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A part of this study was supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (No. 17580142). The authors also express their appreciation to Prof. H. Yano and Dr. K. Abe from Kyoto University for allowing the use of the FESEM and for their technical advice.
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Horikawa, Y., Sugiyama, J. Accessibility and size of Valonia cellulose microfibril studied by combined deuteration/rehydrogenation and FTIR technique. Cellulose 15, 419–424 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-007-9187-z
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