Controlled production of spruce cellulose gels using an environmentally "green" system

Cellulose

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1667-1678

  Gong, Xiaoyu ^a   Wang, Yixiang ^a   Tian, Zhigang ^a   Zheng, Xiang ^b   Chen, Lingyun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b RENMIN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Acid hydrolysis; Solubility; Thermally induced gels; Wood cellulose

Indexed keywords

CELLULOSE; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; DISSOLUTION; EXPERIMENTS; GELS; HYDROLYSIS; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MECHANICAL TESTING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLUBILITY; SOLUTIONS; SWELLING;

ACID HYDROLYSIS; CELLULOSE BASED MATERIALS; NAOH/UREA AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS; POROUS NETWORK STRUCTURES; RHEOLOGICAL EXPERIMENT; STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES; THERMALLY INDUCED; THREE-DIMENSIONAL NETWORKS;

WOOD;

CELLULOSE; COMPRESSION STRENGTH; DISSOLVING; EXPERIMENTATION; GELS; HYDROLYSIS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLUBILITY; SOLUTIONS; SWELLING; WOOD;

EID: 84901198869     PISSN: 09690239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10570-014-0200-z     Document Type: Article

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