Molecular Weight and Distribution of Cellulose and Cellulose Microspheres

[ Objective ] This study aimed to provide basic data for studying the relationship between structure and property of cellulose microspheres by measuring molecular weight of cellulose and cellulose microspheres with viscosity method and gel permeation chromatography （GPC） method. [ Method] In viscosity method, cadmium ethylenediamine was used as the solvent, intrinsic viscosity η of the solution was determined at 25 ℃ by using a Ubbelohde viscometer, to calculate the molecular weight of cellulose; in GPC method, 8% LiC1 / N, N-dimethylacetamide （LiC1/DMAc） was used as the solvent and 0.5% LiC1/DMAc was used as the mobile phase to determine the relative molecular weight and distribution of cellulose and cellulose microspheres. In addition, the determination results were analyzed to compare these two methods. [ Result ] Viscosity-average molecular weight Mr/ of cellulose and cellulose microspheres determined with viscosity method were 224,532 and 16,686, respectively; weight-average molecular weight Mw of cellulose and cellulose microspheres determined with GPC method were 284,196 and 22,345, respectively. [ Conclusion] The determination results of （;PC method are relatively close to the actual value and could truly reflect the characteristics of molecular weialat distribution of eellulose and cellulose mierosr, heres.

Preparation and Chiral Recognition of New Chiral Stationary Phases Derived from Cellulose Microspheres

A new way to prepare cellulose-type chiral stationary phases （CSPs） has been established in the present work.Cellulose microspheres with a volume-average diameter of 11.5 m were prepared by an emulsion-solidification method.Three new CSPs were obtained by crosslinking the cellulose microspheres with terephthaloyl chloride （TPC）,and then modifying the crosslinked microspheres with 4-methylbenzoyl chloride,3,5-dimethylbenzoyl chloride and 3,5-dichlorobenzoyl chloride,respectively.The microspheres and the CSPs were characterized by FT-IR,element analysis and scanning electronic microscopy （SEM）.The chiral recognition ability of the CSPs was evaluated with high-performance liquid chromatography （HPLC）.The chromatographic results demonstrate that the CSP prepared from 3,5-dichlorobenzoyl chloride possesses better chiral recognition ability compared with two other CSPs.

Fabrication of cellulose based superhydrophobic microspheres for the production of magnetically actuatable smart liquid marbles

Cellulose microspheres were fabricated on the basis of sol-gel transition using NaOH/urea/H_(2)O as the solvent system.These microspheres had an average diameter of about 30μm.Upon modification with Fe_(3)O_(4) and poly(DOPAm-co-PFOEA),superhydrophobic magnetic cellulose microspheres were generated,which were analyzed by FTIR,TG,XRD,XPS and water contact angle tests.Magnetic cellulose microspheres contained approximately 15 wt%of Fe_(3)O_(4).Poly(DOPAm-co-PFOEA)/Fe_(3)O_(4)/cellulose microspheres and had a low surface energy and a high water-repellency.These superhydrophobic microspheres were also converted into liquid marbles via an easily scalable process.