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Title: I need to dissolve Cellulose
Post by: EngPet on August 10, 2016, 12:56:00 AM
Dear friends
Cellulose is a biodegradable polymer which is insoluble in water
The reported solvents for it are the ionic liquid
Also some solvents systems can help

My question, when i use 10% wt NaOH solution to mercize and convert cellulose to Cell-ONa the resultant mixture is highly dispersed like gel
How to get  Powder for cellulose from this mix.
My cellulose is cellulose nanocrystals
Regards
Title: Re: I need to dissolve Cellulose
Post by: AWK on August 10, 2016, 02:52:52 AM
Do you mean - regeneration of cellulose? There are many books and references on this subject.
This is a free chapter from one of these books:
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/bk-2010-1033.ch001
and thesis
https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/pastel-00002229/document
Title: Re: I need to dissolve Cellulose
Post by: Arkcon on August 10, 2016, 06:01:57 AM
Dear friends
Cellulose is a biodegradable polymer


By some metrics it is, but its quite resistant, so you might as well leave a bad definition off, like this one.  Even if it were pertinent to the discussion, which it isn't.  Jus' sayin' is all.

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which is insoluble in water

I never saw a tree melt in the rain, so you've got that one.  Again, pertinent?

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The reported solvents for it are the ionic liquid
Also some solvents systems can help

This says almost nothing.  It looks like it was written by an automated internet data-mining bot.  Which ionic liquid, which solvents?

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My question, when i use 10% wt NaOH solution to mercize and convert cellulose to Cell-ONa the resultant mixture is highly dispersed like gel
How to get  Powder for cellulose from this mix.
My cellulose is cellulose nanocrystals
Regards

Like AWK: said, regenerated cellulose, cellophane as an example, has existed for nearly a century.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellophane#History  What your application is, and what you've tried, are what's needed now.