Current Research on Agriculture and Life Sciences
- Volume 31 Issue 1
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- Pages.18-24
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- 2013
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- 2287-271X(pISSN)
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- 2288-0356(eISSN)
Tensile Properties and Thermal Stability of Cellulose Nanofibril/Clay Nanocomposites
- Park, Byung-Dae (Department of Wood Science and Technology, Kyungpook National University) ;
- Singh, Adya P. (Department of Wood Science and Technology, Kyungpook National University) ;
- Um, In Chul (Department of Bio-fibers and Materials Science, Kyungpook National University)
- Received : 2013.03.04
- Accepted : 2013.03.25
- Published : 2013.03.31
Abstract
This work attempted to fabricate organic/inorganic nanocomposite by combining organic cellulose nanofibrils (CNFs), isolated by 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-1-oxy radical (TEMPO)-mediated oxidation of native cellulose with inorganic nanoclay. The morphology and dimension of CNFs, and tensile properties and thermal stability of CNF/clay nanocomposites were characterized by transmission electron microscope (TEM), tensile test, and thermogravimetry (TG), respectively. TEM observation showed that CNFs were fibrillated structure with a diameter of about