Blend films of natural wool and cellulose prepared from an ionic liquid Hameed, Nishar and Guo, Qipeng 2010, Blend films of natural wool and cellulose prepared from an ionic liquid, Cellulose, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 803-813, doi: 10.1007/s10570-010-9411-0. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Blend films of natural wool and cellulose prepared from an ionic liquid Author(s) Hameed, Nishar Guo, Qipeng orcid.org/0000-0001-7113-651X Journal name Cellulose Volume number 17 Issue number 4 Start page 803 End page 813 Total pages 11 Publisher Springer Place of publication Dordrecht, Netherlands Publication date 2010 ISSN 0969-0239 1572-882X Keyword(s) cellulose wool blends ionic liquid Summary Natural wool/cellulose blends were prepared in an ionic liquid green solvent, 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride (BMIMCl) and the films were formed subsequently from the coagulated solutions. The wool/cellulose blend films show significant improvement in thermal stability compared to the coagulated wool and cellulose. Moreover, the blend films exhibited an increasing trend of tensile strength with increase in cellulose content in the blends which could be used for the development of wool-based materials with improved mechanical properties, and the elongations of the blends were considerably improved with respect to the coagulated films of wool and cellulose. It was found that there was hydrogen bonding interaction between hydroxyl groups of wool and cellulose in the coagulated wool/cellulose blends as determined by Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. The ionic liquid was completely recycled with high yield and purity after the blend film was prepared. This work presents a green processing route for development of novel renewable blended materials from natural resource with improved properties. Language eng DOI 10.1007/s10570-010-9411-0 Field of Research 100708 Nanomaterials Socio Economic Objective 970110 Expanding Knowledge in Technology HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal HERDC collection year 2010 Copyright notice ©2010, Springer Science+Business Media B.V. Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30035250 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Centre for Material and Fibre Innovation GTP Research Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Mon, 30 May 2011, 12:16:34 EST Mon, 30 May 2011, 12:18:29 EST Mon, 30 May 2011, 13:34:38 EST Mon, 30 May 2011, 13:37:49 EST Mon, 30 May 2011, 14:36:39 EST Mon, 30 May 2011, 14:37:31 EST Mon, 30 May 2011, 14:38:59 EST Mon, 16 Jun 2014, 18:12:31 EST Fri, 17 Oct 2014, 10:57:30 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 70 times in TR Web of Science Cited 74 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 771 Abstract Views, 4 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 30 May 2011, 12:16:23 EST by Anna Wasterval