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SUBMITTER: Gubitosi M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5579112 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gubitosi Marta M Nosrati Pegah P Koder Hamid Mona M Kuczera Stefan S Behrens Manja A MA Johansson Eric G EG Olsson Ulf U
Royal Society open science 20170830 8
We have characterized the dissolution state of microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) in aqueous tetrabutylammonium hydroxide, TBAH(aq), at different concentrations of TBAH, by means of turbidity and small-angle X-ray scattering. The solubility of cellulose increases with increasing TBAH concentration, which is consistent with solubilization driven by neutralization. When comparing the two polymorphs, the solubility of cellulose I is higher than that of cellulose II. This has the consequence that the ...[more]