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Due to the limited volumes of conventional sources of cellulose (cotton and wood), research centered on producing the most competitive science-driven products – cellulose nitrates – from new, domestic, easily renewable feedstocks is extremely relevant. The review of scientific literature corroborates the lack of data on the feasibility to obtain cellulose nitrates from Miscanthus, except for the authors’ publications. Here we suggest a tree-like industrial crop, Miscanthus var. KAMIS, growing with an yield of up to 20 t/ha a year on industrial plantations in Kaliningradskaya, Kaluzhskaya and Yaroslavskaya Oblasts and in Primorskiy Krai. A pulp sample derived from Miscanthus var. KAMIS by the nitric-acid process exhibits a high α-cellulose content of 96 % and degree of polymerization of 1350. Under optimum synthesis conditions previously identified for unconventional feedstocks, a cellulose nitrate sample was synthesized by treating the pulp with commercially available mixed acid and had the following functional characteristics: 11.26 % nitrogen content, 52 mPа∙s viscosity, and – 95 % solubility on alcohol-ester mixture. Morphological features of pulp and cellulose nitrate samples were characterized by scanning electron microscopy. IR spectroscopy revealed the presence of functional groups in pulp samples (3411, 2913, 1637, 1429, 1369, 1317, 1161, 700-500 cm-1) and cellulose nitrate samples (2553, 1642, 1276, 830, 746, 680 cm-1), which allow those samples to be identified as cellulose and nitrate cellulose esters, respectively. It was found by scanning electron microscopy that the cellulose nitrate sample matches industrial Colloxylines by the onset temperature of decomposition (199 °С) and specific head of decomposition (8,43 kJ/g). The practical importance of this study is that we experimentally justify the feasibility to utilize the new, unconventional, domestic, easily renewable feedstock, Miscanthus var. KAMIS, as a precursor of high-quality cellulose nitrates

Miscanthus × Giganteus var. KAMIS as a New Feedstock for Cellulose Nitrates