Physico-chemical Characteristics of Fine Nano-scaled Carbon Fibers from Bacterial Cellulose | Zendy

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Physico-chemical Characteristics of Fine Nano-scaled Carbon Fibers from Bacterial Cellulose

Author(s) -

Swaminathan Jiji,

K. Kadirvelu,

Deepika Rajendran

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

defence life science journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.135

H-Index - 3

eISSN - 2456-379X

pISSN - 2456-0537

DOI - 10.14429/dlsj.2.12280

Subject(s) - cellulose , nanofiber , bacterial cellulose , carbon nanofiber , materials science , chemical engineering , biomass (ecology) , carbon fibers , pyrolysis , nano , fourier transform infrared spectroscopy , nanoscopic scale , carbon nanotube , nanotechnology , composite material , composite number , agronomy , engineering , biology

Recently, carbon nanofibers have gained immense attention in research due to its tremendous application. Here, this work highlights a simple, cost effective and reliable method to develop carbon nanofibers (CNF) from biomass. The biomass used is bacterial cellulose (BC) synthesized using Acetobacter xylinus . CNF was developed by freeze drying of BC followed by pyrolysis at different temperatures (300ºC - 900ºC). The conversions of BC to CNF were characterized using SEM, FTIR, TGA and XRD respectively. The results exhibit three dimensional, lightweight, fine nanoscale fibers with a diameter of 10nm which are tend to have hydrophobic and lipophilic characters, due to which it can be used in oil – water separation applications.

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