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Effect of pulp prehydrolysis conditions on dissolution and regenerated cellulose pore structure
When producing regenerated cellulose materials, e.g., fibers and films, pulp fibers are first dissolved in a solvent and then regenerated in an...
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Refinability of mercerized softwood kraft pulp
In this study, the impact of mercerization and PFI refining on the properties of softwood kraft pulp was investigated. Never-dried softwood kraft...
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High-temperature Thermo-oxidative Aging of Vulcanized Natural Rubber Nanocomposites: Evolution of Microstructure and Mechanical Properties
The aging of natural rubber (NR) at high temperatures will seriously affect its service lifetime in many key applications. In the present work, the...
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Development of a Method for the Experimental Study of the Capillary-Porous Structure of Yarn Filaments
Issues involved in drying and determining the porosity of yarn filaments are considered. A technique is proposed for the experimental determination...
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PACER: a novel 3D plant cell wall model for the analysis of non-catalytic and enzymatic responses
BackgroundSubstrate accessibility remains a key limitation to the efficient enzymatic deconstruction of lignocellulosic biomass. Limited substrate...
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Possibility of application of naphthalene as carbon pyrolysate to obtain mineral-carbon sorbents
Physicochemical properties of mineral-carbon sorbents obtained by thermal decomposition of a mixture of aluminum hydroxide or alumina and naphthalene...
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DSC of natural opal: insights into the incorporation of crystallisable water in the opal microstructure
Low-temperature DSC on a wide range of opal-A and opal-CT samples was carried out to estimate the proportion of crystallisable water and to determine...
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Chirality and bound water in the hierarchical cellulose structure
AbstractThe origins of the unique properties of natural fibres have remained largely unresolved because of the complex interrelations between...
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Strong cationic polyelectrolyte adsorption on a water swollen cellulosic biomaterial and its relevance on microstructure and rheological properties
AbstractA multiscale approach was taken to study the swelling and viscosifying properties of a cellulose-rich biomaterial as a function of...
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Influence of the quality of microcrystalline cellulose on the outcome of TEMPO-mediated oxidation
In an attempt to prepare cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) by TEMPO-mediated oxidation of microcrystalline cellulose (MCC), a new species of MCC called...
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Artefact peaks of pore size distributions caused by unclosed sorption isotherm and tensile strength effect
The pore size distribution (PSD) is an important property of the porous materials, but an accurate and reliable PSD is very difficult to obtain....
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A structural fibrillation parameter from small angle X-ray scattering to quantify pulp refining
AbstractPulp fibrillation results from refining and is of prime importance for papermaking. Yet a structural parameter reflecting the extent of...
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Water thermoporosimetry as a tool of characterization of the textural parameters of mesoporous materials
Water thermoporosimetry (TPM) is a powerful method for studying the properties of porous materials, devoted especially for investigation of the...
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Cellulose II aerogels: a review
Cellulose II aerogels are light-weight, open pores materials with high specific surface area. They are made in the same way as bio-aerogels based on...
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Thermoporosimetry of hard (silica) and soft (cellulosic) materials by isothermal step melting
In this study, the pore size distribution of silica aerogels is measured with thermoporosimetry and compared with results from cellulosic materials....
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Surface properties and porosity of highly porous, nanostructured cellulose II particles
Recently, a new member of the nanocellulose family was introduced, a cellulose II gel consisting of nanostructured and spherical particles. In this...
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Impact of selected solvent systems on the pore and solid structure of cellulose aerogels
The impact of selected cellulose solvent systems based on the principal constituents tetrabutylammonium fluoride (TBAF), 1-ethyl-3-methyl-1 H -imidazoli...
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Dissolution of enzyme-treated cellulose using freezing–thawing method and the properties of fibres regenerated from the solution
The rapid coagulation of NaOH-based cellulose solution during the wet spinning process leads to a low stretching ratio and, consequently, the low...
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