Open AccessPhysico-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.