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Phosphorylated cellulose nanofibrils: structure-morphology-rheology relationships

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Cellulose nanofibrils (CNFs) are normally available and used as aqueous suspensions. Total understanding of the rheological characteristics of CNF suspensions, however, remains a tremendous challenge. The main objective of this study is to investigate the structure-morphology-rheology relationships for CNFs as a function of phosphorylation duration. For that purpose, phosphorylated CNFs have been produced from jute fibers (Corchorus olitorius) with controlled curing times of the source materials and reported for the first time. The resulting fibers have a width in the range of 21–42 nm. It was observed that the morphological structure, crystallinity, surface charge, surface chemistry, and rheological property of the extracted CNFs were greatly influenced by the phosphorylation. The obtained CNF systems displayed a viscoelastic gel-like behavior because of the formation of highly entangled fibers structure. Results show that all CNF suspensions exhibit shear-thinning behavior. Both steady-state and dynamic rheology revealed that the characteristics of aqueous suspensions strongly changed depending on the phosphorylation. Finally, schematic modeling was proposed to demonstrate the transformation of the gel structure with curing time applied to the CNFs.

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The authors are grateful to the National Key R&D Program of China (Project No. 2018YFC2000900) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Project No. 2232018A3-04).

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  1. College of Textiles, Donghua University, 2999 Renmin Rd. (North), Songjiang District, Shanghai, 201620, People’s Republic of China

    Mohammed Kayes Patoary, Amjad Farooq, Bilal Zaarour & Lifang Liu

  2. The Key Lab of Textile Science & Technology, Ministry of Education, Donghua University, Shanghai, 201620, People’s Republic of China

    Mohammed Kayes Patoary, Amjad Farooq, Bilal Zaarour & Lifang Liu

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Patoary, M.K., Farooq, A., Zaarour, B. et al. Phosphorylated cellulose nanofibrils: structure-morphology-rheology relationships. Cellulose 28, 4105–4117 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-021-03786-x

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