Shear-Dependent Structures of Flocculated Micro/Nanofibrillated Cellulose (MNFC) in Aqueous Suspensions.

Biomacromolecules
Emily G FacchineSaad A Khan

Abstract

Cellulosic nanomaterials constitute a topic of growing commercial interest for numerous applications, many of which demand a working knowledge of the rheology of the materials. We demonstrate here that aqueous suspensions of micro/nanofibrillated cellulose (MNFC) exhibit complex shear behavior governed primarily by fibrillar floc dynamics. Regimes corresponding to structure formation, persistence, and breakdown are quantitatively differentiated. We assess the recovery of the network structure as a function of the applied breakdown conditions and identify critical conditions that characterize the floc dynamics as isotropic or anisotropic. A two-step yield behavior generates persistent anisotropic flocs that effectively prohibit recovery of the initial gel structure under certain conditions. Processing within this stress window entails a risk of generating heterogeneous, potentially irreproducible structures and properties. An in-depth understanding of the rheology of aqueous MNFC suspensions and their floc-dominated, rather than fibril-dominated, nature is critical to rationally tailoring properties through judicious selection of processing conditions.

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