Abstract:
Cellulose is dissolved in an ionic liquid without derivatization, and is regenerated in a range of structural forms without requiring the use of harmful or volatile organic solvents. Cellulose solubility and the solution properties can be controlled by the selection of the ionic liquid constituents, with small cations and halide or pseudohalide anions favoring solution.
Abstract:
A regenerated cellulose-encapsulated active substance and a method for encapsulating an active substance in a regenerated cellulose matrix are disclosed. The distribution of the active substance is preferably substantially homogeneous within the matrix of regenerated cellulose. The regenerated cellulose (i) has about the same molecular weight as the original cellulose from which it is prepared (ii) is substantially free of added substituent groups relative to the starting cellulose and is also substantially free of entrapped ionic liquid degradation products.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a process for the treatment, in particular for the roughening, of the surface of hydrated cellulose shaped articles, in which at least one cellulase is allowed to act on the surface and is then inactivated permanently. The tubular films modified in this way are particularly suitable as foodstuff casings, specifically as sausage casings.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a regenerated cellulose based sponge material with an inner viscose fiber reinforcement having a staple fiber length of 5-50 mm and impregnated with a biocide agent. Also disclosed is a regenerated cellulose based sponge material with an inner cotton fiber reinforcement having a staple fiber length of 5-50 mm and impregnated with a biocide agent. The coagulation and regeneration takes place in a bath that has a pH of 13 or higher and which includes Glauber's salt, NaOH and water.
Abstract:
The present invention is to provide a modified cellulose regenerated fiber having a practically endurable tenacity, and being excellent in dye-affinity, and having anti-funguses and deodorizing properties. The present invention comprises preliminarily molding chitosan or acetylated chitosan into a fine particle, mixing the fine particle body with cellulose viscose prior to spinning, and spinning the mixture, at the inclusion regenerated fiber.
Abstract:
A biocompatible hydrophilic material is based on purified cellulose, from which material all or the majority of the water has been removed and which has a modulable potential for water recovery of up to an amount of water of approximately 60%. The material can be used for the production of fitting sheaths for articulated prostheses.
Abstract:
A porous regenerated cellulose membrane consisting essentially of cellulose molecules having a viscosity average molecular weight of at least about 5.times.10.sup.4, the crystalline region of the cellulose molecules being substantially cellulose II crystal, cellulose III-2 crystal or the mixture thereof and having a degree of crystal orientation at a face of (101) in the crystalline region in the direction of the surface of the membrane of at most about 40%, the membrane having a dynamic modulus at 30.degree. C. measured with a frequency of 110 Hz of at least about 1.5.times.10.sup.8 (100-pr.rho.) dyn/cm.sup.2 wherein Pr.rho. is a porosity by percentage, a mean pore size represented by D(.mu.m) of about 0.01 .mu.m to about 20 .mu.m and at the same time a porosity in a plane of at least one plane of at least about 30% or a number of pores in a plane per 1 cm.sup.2 of about 6.times.10.sup.5 /D to about 3.times.10.sup.7 /D; and a process for preparing the same.
Abstract:
An absorbent material is provided having exceptional fluid suction and holding power for aqueous physiological fluids, and which is thus especially adaptable for use as tampons, sanitary napkins, baby diapers, hospital pads and the like. The material consists essentially of cellulose fibers containing from 5 to 20% by weight of sodium carboxymethyl cellulose. The material is formed by a process in which a viscose spinning solution is produced from cellulose xantogenate by dissolving in aqueous caustic soda solution and permitting the solution to ripen, spinning the latter in an acid spinning bath, and then cleaning and drying the resultant threads, the spinning solution containing 5 to 20% by weight of sodium carboxymethyl cellulose.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a process for coating the surface of a shaped article of cellulose hydrate with a layer of polymer material which comprises applying to the surface of a shaped article in the gel state and based on cellulose hydrate, a liquid layer of an aqueous solution of a chemically modified protein obtained by mixing an aqueous alkaline protein solution with an aqueous solution of N-methylolacrylamide or N-methylol-methacrylamide or of the alkoxy derivatives thereof of aliphatic alcohols with 1 to 8 carbon atoms, particularly of organic, tetrafunctional, doubly unsaturated compounds of the general formula ##STR1## in which R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are hydrogen or an alkyl group with 1 to 6 carbon atoms, andR.sub.3 is the group --(CH.sub.2).sub.n --, n being an integer from 1 to 8, or the group ##STR2## in which R.sub.4 is an alkyl group with 1 to 18 carbon atoms, subjecting the liquid mixture to a dwell time, heating the coated shaped article, and wetting the shaped article. The invention also relates to a shaped article of cellulose hydrate having a coating of protein thereon.
Abstract:
A regenerated cellulosic product is made flame resistant by the addition to the cellulosic solution from which the product is regenerated of from 3 to 7% by weight of colloidal antimony pentoxide and from 5 to 30% by weight of polyvinyl bromide.