摘要:
This invention relates to absorbent materials useful in the manufacture of absorbent articles, in particular dressings for the advanced wound care market. The absorbent materials of the present invention are sulfonated polysaccharides, particularly water-insoluble cellulose alkyl sulfonates in which the cellulose is substituted by one type of alkyl sulfonate group. The invention also provides a process for the manufacture of such materials. The preferred cellulose alkyl sulfonate described herein is cellulose ethyl sulfonate. Reinforcing fibers and/or antimicrobial agents are optionally applied to the cellulose alkyl sulfonate.
摘要:
The present inventors have discovered that the solution rheology of cellulose ethers prepared from cellulose pulp is altered by mercerizing and recovering cellulose pulp before preparing the cellulose ethers. For example, the solution viscosity of carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) produced from mercerized and recovered cellulose pulp is significantly greater than that produced from non-mercerized cellulose pulp. The present invention provides a method of preparing cellulose ethers comprising the steps of (a) obtaining mercerized and recovered cellulose pulp, and (b) converting the mercerized and recovered cellulose pulp into the cellulose ethers. According to one embodiment, the cellulose pulp is southern softwood kraft and the mercerized cellulose pulp has a TAPPI 230 om-89 viscosity of at most 12 cP. This method, however, may be applied to all cellulose pulps, regardless of their viscosities, including those which, when mercerized, have a viscosity greater than 12 cP. The mercerized cellulose pulp is typically substantially free of cellulose III. Mercerized cellulose pulp prepared by this method has a greater percentage of crystalline cellulose II and a smaller crystalline area than that of non-mercerized cellulose pulp. The present invention also provides a method of preparing a cellulose floc comprising the steps of (a) obtaining mercerized and recovered cellulose pulp, and (b) treating the mercerized pulp to form the cellulose floc. Alternatively, the method comprises mercerizing and recovering a cellulose floc. Cellulose floc prepared by this method have a greater bulk density than cellulose floc prepared from similar non-mercerized cellulose pulp. Furthermore, the bulk density gain is greater than that expected from the coarseness (weight per unit of fiber length) gain from preparing a cellulose floc.
摘要:
Novel cellulose derivative, process for preparing the same and sulfur dioxide gas permselective membrane comprising said derivative.Hydrocarbysulfinylethyl cellulose represented by the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein, X may be the same or different and represents hydrogen atom or hydrocarbylsulfinylethyl group represented by the formula (II): ##STR2## wherein, R may be the same or different and represents an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms or a phenyl group,with the average substitution degree with the hydrocarbylsulfinylethyl group of the formula (II) per glucose unit being at least 0.05, and sulfur dioxide gas permeation membrane comprising said cellulose derivative. This membrane is excellent in sulfur dioxide gas permselectivity.
摘要:
Disclosed is a cellulose ether having at least one phosphorus-containing substituent or a mixed ether of said cellulose ether having in addition at least one phosphorus-free substituent comprising alkyl, hydroxyalkyl, carboxyalkyl, sulfonoalkyl, aminoalkyl, or diaminoalkyl, wherein the phosphorus-containing substituent(s) comprise(s) groups of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are OX; or R.sup.1 is OX and R.sup.2 is OY; or R.sup.1 is OX and R.sup.2 is (CH.sub.2).sub.n --CH.sub.3 ; or R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are (CH.sub.2).sub.n --CH.sub.3 ; or R.sup.1 is (CH.sub.2).sub.n --CH.sub.3 and R.sup.2 is (CH.sub.2).sub.p --CH.sub.3, whereinX,Y are identical or different and comprise a hydrogen atom or a monovalent cation;m is an integer from 1 to 4; andn,p are identical or different and are 0 or 1; with the proviso that when m is 1 or 2, R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 may not be OX and R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 may not be OX and OY, respectively. Also disclosed is a process for producing these cellulose ether products.
摘要:
Mercury is removed from aqueous solution by contacting the solution with an absorbent prepared by incorporating vicinal thiol groups into a cellulose matrix.
WHEREIN R'' AND R" ARE H, ALKYL GROUPS FROM 1 TO 5 CARBON ATOMS, OR ALKANOYL GROUPS FROM 2 TO 6 CARBONS, R"'' IS ALKYL, SUBSTITUTED ALKYL OR ARYL, AND
(-O-CH2-)>CH-CH2-SO2-CH2-COO-O-R"
WHEREIN R" IS DEFINED ABOVE. REACTION OF SULFONES WITH CELLULOSIC TEXTILE MATERIALS IN TWO STEPS UNDER DIFFERENT REACTION CONDITIONS TO OBTAIN CROSSLINKED CELLULOSIC MATERIALS HAVING IMPROVED CREASE RECOVERY PROPERTIES.