BioResources, Vol 4, No 3 (2009)

ACCESSIBILITY AND CRYSTALLINITY OF CELLULOSE

Michael Ioelovich

Abstract


The accessibility of cellulose samples having various degrees of crystallinity was studied with respect to molecules of water, lower primary alcohols, and lower organic acids. It was found that small water molecules have full access to non-crystalline domains of cellulose (accessibility coefficient α = 1). Molecules of the lowest polar organic liquids (methanol, ethanol, and formic acid) have partial access into the non-crystalline domains (α

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