Preparation and Characterization of Cellulose Fibers Modified with Epoxy Chloropropane

Abstract:

Natural plant fibers possess a lot of advantages in chemical modification, such as easy process, extensive intensity range, better selectivity, good resistance to water, biodegradability and photo-degradability, that makes the etherification and esterification wood has good development prospect. In this paper, softwood fibers were used as raw material and epoxy chloropropane as modifier. The influences of epoxy chloropropane dosage, reaction time and temperature, and the dosage of NaOH on the modification were analyzed. Simultaneity, an FTIR study was performed to show the partial substitution of hydroxyl groups by the epoxy group. And surface morphology of fibers modified was characterized by scanning electron microscope.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 549)
• Pages: 382-386
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.549.382
• Online since: July 2012
• Authors: Hui Juan Xiu, Qing Han, Ke Peng, Kun Zhang
• Keywords: Cellulose Fiber, Epoxy Chloropropane, Etherification Modification

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