Thermal analysis of cellulose/poly(ethylene oxide) blends

A variety of new nonaqueous solvents for dissolution of unmodified cellulose has been described in the past several years and the study of cellulose blends with synthetic polymers is now a subject of increasing interest and importance, in relation to practical applications as new polymeric materials...

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Published inPolymer journal Vol. 21; no. 4; pp. 347 - 351
Main Authors NISHIO, Y, HIROSE, N, TAKAHASHI, T
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Tokyo Society of Polymer Science 01.01.1989
Subjects
Applied sciences
Cellulose and derivatives
Exact sciences and technology
Natural polymers
Physicochemistry of polymers
Ethylene oxide polymer
Differential calorimetry
Wood
Property composition relationship
Cellulose
Miscibility
Thermal analysis
Mixture
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Summary:A variety of new nonaqueous solvents for dissolution of unmodified cellulose has been described in the past several years and the study of cellulose blends with synthetic polymers is now a subject of increasing interest and importance, in relation to practical applications as new polymeric materials with wider ranging physical propertis. It was previously demonstrated that blend films of cellulose with a few conventional polymers can be easily prepared over the whole composition range using the solvent N,N-dimethylacetamide (DMAc)--lithium chloride (LiCl). The present study is concerned with the thermal characterization of binary blends of cellulose (CELL) and a highly crystalline polyether, poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO), the blends being obtained by a solution--coagulation method similar to that described previously. A few results of the measurements carried out on the blends by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) are reported. 21 ref.--AA
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ISSN:0032-3896
1349-0540
DOI:10.1295/polymj.21.347