Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
Volume 88, Issue -, Pages 451-456Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2016.04.013
Keywords
Hemicellulose waste liquor; Graft copolymerization; Stimuli-responsive hydrogel
Funding
- Natural Science Foundation of China [21206184, 31370582, 21306216, 31470609]
- Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholar (China) [JQ201305]
- National High Technology Research and Development Program (863 program) of China [2012AA022301]
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The hemicellulose isolated from the spent liquor of a viscose process was successfully utilized to prepare hydrogels by the graft copolymerization of acrylic acid (AA) with hemicellulose. The hemicellulose and prepared hydrogel were characterized by Fourier-transform infrared (FT-IR), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (C-13 NMR). Under the optimum preparation conditions, the highest compressive strength and strain at break of the resultant hydrogel were 105.1 +/- 12.9 kPa and 34.8%, respectively. Furthermore, the maximum equilibrium swelling degree of prepared hydrogel was 192. Also, the hydrogel could rapidly respond to pH, salt and ethanol. Taken together, the prepared hydrogels had great mechanical and multi-responsive properties. Thus, the prepared hydro gels had a great potential application in drug release, water treatment and cell immobilization. In addition, the utilization of alkaline extracted hemicellulose from the viscose fiber factory has huge market potential and economic benefits. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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