Cellulose Derivatives Composites

Due to infusibility and insolubility of cellulose, it is usually converted into derivatives to make it more processable. Some important derivatives of cellulose include ethers like methyl cellulose and hydroxyl-ethyl cellulose, and esters such as cellulose acetate, cellulose butyrate, cellulose acetate-butyrate, etc. However, little attention has been given to these materials in efforts to develop biodegradable plastics. Slow degradation rates, high cost, and processes that generate some noxious discharges are the likely reasons [10, 12]. 

The hydroxyl groups (-OH) of cellulose can be partially or fully reacted with various reagents to afford derivatives with useful properties like mainly cellulose esters and cellulose ethers. 

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Table 1. Polymerization of vinyl polymers by vibromilling cellulose derivatives. Composition and properties of the interpolymers (14)...

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The solid-state NMR technique may also be used in cellulose derivatives to follow the degree of substitution and degradation of the chain e.g. as found for cellulose nitrate 16). Investigations on the composition of copolymers may also been done as examplared by celluloseacetate-butyrate given in Fig. 6, 20). Here, owing to relaxation differences the spectra cannot be used for elementary analyses, but for estimating the relative number of the components. 

Polyelectrolytes (most notably ionic cellulose derivatives and crosslinked polyacid powders) are also commonly used as matrices, binders and excipients in oral controlled release compositions. In these applications, the polyelectrolytes provide hydrophilicity and pH sensitivity to tablet dosage forms. Acidic polyelectrolytes dissociate and swell (or dissolve) at high pH values whereas basic polyelectrolytes (for instance, polyamines) become protonated and swell at low pH. In either case, swelling results in increased permeability [290], thereby allowing an incorporated drug to be released. 

As is well established, polymer/polymer blending is an important method to improve the original physical properties of one or both of the components, or to obtain new polymeric materials showing widely variable properties without parallel in homopolymers. There have been numerous blend studies for various polymer pairs from both the fundamental and practical viewpoints. A few reviews [7,42] have described a general scheme for preparation and characterization of the blends and micro composites of unmodified cellulose with synthetic polymers, mainly based on works performed until 1994. The present review will cover the articles published on this topic since the mid 1990s, with extensions to related works on cellulose derivatives and other natural polysaccharides. 

Lacquer. A coating composition that is based on synthetic thermoplastic film-forming material dissolved in organic solvent that dries primarily by solvent evaporation. Ts pical lacquers include those based on nitrocellulose, other cellulose derivatives, vinyl resins, acrylic resins, and the like. 

Use Solvent for cellulose nitrate, solvent mixture for cellulose derivative, lacquers, paints, varnishes, coating compositions, flavoring. 

Cowie, J.M.G. Rodden, G.I. Blending as a method of tuning reflection wavelength and helical twisting sense in films and composites of liquid crystalline cellulose derivatives. Polymer 2002, 43 (12), 3415-3419. 

Some cellulose derivatives and P(3HB) and P(3HB-co-3HV) have been found to show good compatibility [114-116]. These are chemically modified natural and natural biodegradable polymer blend systems. Blends obtained by melts compounding P(3HB) with cellulose acetate butyrate (CAB, degrees of butyrate and acetate substitution are 2.50 and 0.18, respectively) have been found to be miscible over the whole composition range by DSC and dynamic mechanical spectroscopy [116]. 

Perhaps the most significant new information derived from the CF-MAS spectra is that relating to the native celluloses. The spectra reveal multiplicities that cannot be interpreted in terms of a unique unit cell, even though they arise from magnetically nonequivalent sites in crystalline domains, the narrow lines observed have relative intensities which are neither constant among the samples of different native celluloses, nor are they in the ratios of small whole numbers as would be expected if they arose from different sites within a relatively small unit cell. VanderHart and Atalla proposed that native celluloses are composites of two distinct crystalline forms (44,45). 

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