Molecules (Sep 2022)

Cellulose from Annual Plants and Its Use for the Production of the Films Hydrophobized with Tetrafluoroethylene Telomers

  • Sergey A. Baskakov,
  • Yulia V. Baskakova,
  • Eugene N. Kabachkov,
  • Galina A. Kichigina,
  • Pavel P. Kushch,
  • Dmitriy P. Kiryukhin,
  • Svetlana S. Krasnikova,
  • Elmira R. Badamshina,
  • Sergey G. Vasil’ev,
  • Timofey A. Soldatenkov,
  • Victor N. Vasilets,
  • Filipp O. Milovich,
  • Alexandre Michtchenko,
  • Oksana V. Veselova,
  • Vasiliy A. Yakimov,
  • Svetlana N. Ivanova,
  • Yury M. Shulga

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules27186002
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 27, no. 18
p. 6002

Abstract

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Cellulose HogC was produced by the modified traditional method with 35% yield from the stem of Sosnovsky hogweed and was characterized by elemental analysis, infrared (IR) spectroscopy, powder X-ray diffractometry, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). For HogC, the degree of crystallinity (approximately 70%) and the glass transition temperature (105–108 °C) were determined. It was found that the whiteness characteristic in the case of HogC was 92% and this significate was obtained without a bleaching procedure using chlorine-containing reagents. In this paper, the possibility of hydrophobization of HogC films by treatment with radiation-synthesized telomers of tetrafluoroethylene is shown. It was found that the contact angle of the telomer-treated cellulose film surface depended on the properties of the telomers (the chemical nature of the solvent, and the initial concentration of tetrafluoroethylene) and could reach 140 degrees.

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