TY - JOUR
T1 - Cellulose polymorphs and physical properties of cotton fabrics processed with commercial textile mills for mercerization and liquid ammonia treatments
AU - Kafle, Kabindra
AU - Greeson, Kenneth
AU - Lee, Christopher
AU - Kim, Seong H.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by Cotton Incorporated (for fabric sample preparation and SFG data collection) and The Center for Lignocellulose Structure and Formation, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the US Department of Energy, Office of Science and Office of Basic Energy Sciences (grant number DE-SC0001090). Acknowledgments
PY - 2014/10
Y1 - 2014/10
N2 - We report the detection of cellulose polymorphs, using spectroscopic and diffraction techniques, in cotton fabrics treated with commercial textile mill processes designed for better dyeing and mechanical properties. Vibrational sum frequency generation (SFG) spectroscopy analysis of cotton is known to be selective and sensitive to the crystalline cellulose portion in the sample. The SFG analysis results were compared with the results from conventional analytical techniques such as X-ray diffraction (XRD) and infrared (IR) spectroscopy. The XRD detection of a small fraction of cellulose II present in the partially-mercerized fabric was difficult, while SFG and IR analysis indicated the partial conversion of cellulose I to II without significant reduction of the cellulose crystallinity. Processing the cotton fabric with the liquid-ammonia treatment mill caused partial conversion of cellulose I to III and significant reduction of the overall crystallinity of cellulose. All XRD, SFG, and IR techniques were able to monitor this conversion. When the cotton fabric was treated with the partial mercerization process first and then the liquid-ammonia process, both cellulose II and cellulose III were produced and identified with SFG. But XRD and IR failed to detect the presence of cellulose II in the mercerized and ammonia-treated fabric. The polymorphic changes found in the SFG, XRD, and IR analyses provided insights into the physical property changes of cotton fabric after commercial mercerization and liquid-ammonia treatment processes.
AB - We report the detection of cellulose polymorphs, using spectroscopic and diffraction techniques, in cotton fabrics treated with commercial textile mill processes designed for better dyeing and mechanical properties. Vibrational sum frequency generation (SFG) spectroscopy analysis of cotton is known to be selective and sensitive to the crystalline cellulose portion in the sample. The SFG analysis results were compared with the results from conventional analytical techniques such as X-ray diffraction (XRD) and infrared (IR) spectroscopy. The XRD detection of a small fraction of cellulose II present in the partially-mercerized fabric was difficult, while SFG and IR analysis indicated the partial conversion of cellulose I to II without significant reduction of the cellulose crystallinity. Processing the cotton fabric with the liquid-ammonia treatment mill caused partial conversion of cellulose I to III and significant reduction of the overall crystallinity of cellulose. All XRD, SFG, and IR techniques were able to monitor this conversion. When the cotton fabric was treated with the partial mercerization process first and then the liquid-ammonia process, both cellulose II and cellulose III were produced and identified with SFG. But XRD and IR failed to detect the presence of cellulose II in the mercerized and ammonia-treated fabric. The polymorphic changes found in the SFG, XRD, and IR analyses provided insights into the physical property changes of cotton fabric after commercial mercerization and liquid-ammonia treatment processes.
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U2 - 10.1177/0040517514527379
DO - 10.1177/0040517514527379
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84900833298
SN - 0040-5175
VL - 84
SP - 1692
EP - 1699
JO - Textile Research Journal
JF - Textile Research Journal
IS - 16
ER -