School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province 225002, PR China.
Guangling Collage, Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province 225002, PR China.
Carbohydr Polym. 2021 Aug 1;265:118093. doi: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2021.118093. Epub 2021 Apr 24.
Dispersion states are vital for fibrous nanocelluloses to be used as reinforcements for polymers, which is highly dependent on geometry of nanocelluloses. Three types of nanocelluloses with various fiber aspect ratios were used to prepare target composite samples with poly(β-hydroxybutyrate) in this work. Viscoelasticity/elastoplasticity were used as probes to detect the flexibility-morphology relations of nanocelluloses in polymer. Cellulose nanocrystals (aspect ratio = 8) were rigid in polymer, retaining their rod-like shape, whereas bacterial celluloses (aspect ratio = 600) fully flexible, forming closely networked structure, and cellulose nanofibers (aspect ratio = 70) semi-flexible, dispersing as loosely flocculated clusters. Owing to these differences, the viscoelastic flow and elastoplastic deformation of three kinds of composites differed from one another. The strain-scaling and hysteresis work-scaling behaviors were then used to establish relaxation scale-structure correlations of target samples. This work provides interesting information around regulating the dispersion of nanocelluloses in polymer composites by tailoring aspect ratios of nanocelluloses.
分散状态对将纤维状纳米纤维素用作聚合物的增强剂至关重要,而这高度依赖于纳米纤维素的几何形状。在这项工作中,使用了三种具有不同纤维纵横比的纳米纤维素来制备与聚(β-羟基丁酸酯)的目标复合样品。粘弹性/弹塑性被用作探针来检测纳米纤维素在聚合物中的柔韧性-形态关系。纤维素纳米晶体(纵横比=8)在聚合物中是刚性的,保持其棒状形状,而细菌纤维素(纵横比=600)则完全是柔性的,形成紧密的网络结构,而纤维素纳米纤维(纵横比=70)则是半柔性的,分散为松散絮状团聚体。由于这些差异,三种复合材料的粘弹性流动和弹塑性变形彼此不同。然后,使用应变标度和滞后功标度行为来建立目标样品的松弛标度-结构相关性。这项工作通过调整纳米纤维素的纵横比,为调节纳米纤维素在聚合物复合材料中的分散提供了有趣的信息。