Regenerated cellulose I from LiCl·DMAc solution

Yafan Wan; Feng An; Pucha Zhou; Yinhui Li; Yaodong Liu; Chunxiang Lu; Hongxiang Chen

doi:10.1039/c7cc00450h

Regenerated cellulose I from LiCl·DMAc solution

Chem Commun (Camb). 2017 Mar 23;53(25):3595-3597. doi: 10.1039/c7cc00450h.

Authors

Yafan Wan¹, Feng An², Pucha Zhou², Yinhui Li², Yaodong Liu², Chunxiang Lu², Hongxiang Chen³

Affiliations

¹ National Engineering Laboratory for Carbon Fiber Technology, Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 27 Taoyuan South Road, Taiyuan 030001, P. R. China and School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430081, P. R. China.
² National Engineering Laboratory for Carbon Fiber Technology, Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 27 Taoyuan South Road, Taiyuan 030001, P. R. China.
³ School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430081, P. R. China.

PMID: 28294250
DOI: 10.1039/c7cc00450h

Abstract

The regeneration of cellulose from microcrystalline cellulose/DMAc·LiCl solutions through thermal induced sol-gel transition and longtime gelation resulted in the formation of wholly cellulose I with a crystallinity as high as 84.7%.

MeSH terms

Acetamides / chemistry*
Cellulose / chemistry*
Gels / chemistry
Lithium Chloride / chemistry*
Solutions / chemistry
Spectrum Analysis, Raman
Temperature
X-Ray Diffraction

Substances

Acetamides
Gels
Solutions
Cellulose
Lithium Chloride
dimethylacetamide
microcrystalline cellulose