Unbleached (UN), oxygen-delignified and fully-bleached (FB) birch fibers with a residual lignin content of ca. 3, 2 and\1 %, respectively, were used to produce nanofibrillated cellulose (NFC) and nanopaper by using an overpressure device. The tensile index, elongation and elastic modulus of nanopaper were compared and the effect of residual cellwall components accessed. Under similar manufacturing conditions, UN NFC produced nanopaper with a density of 0.99 g/cm3, higher than that from FB NFC (0.7 g/cm3). This translated in much lower air permeability in the case of UN nanopaper (1 and 11 mL/min for UN and FB samples, respectively). Fundamentally, these observations are ascribed to the finer fibrils produced during microfluidization of UN fibers compared to those from lower yield counterparts(AFMroughness of 8 and 17 nm and surface areas of 124 and 98 m2/g for NFC from UN and FBfibers, respectively).As a result, values of stress at break and energy absorption of nanopaper from high yield fibers are distinctively higher than those from fully bleached NFC. Interactions of water with the surface and bulk materialwere affected by the chemical composition and structure of the nanofibrils. While UN nanopaper presented higher water contact angles their sorption capacity (and rate of water absorption) was much higher than thosemeasured for nanopaper from FB NFC. These and other observations provided in this contribution are proposed to be related to the mechanoradical scavenging capacity of lignin in high shear microfluidization and the presence of residual heteropolysaccharidesPostprint (published version
17In this work, laccase-TEMPO (Lac-T) treatments were applied to bleached commercial 18 dissolving pulp in order to introduce carbonyl and carboxyl groups, which were found to 19 improve dry and wet strength-related properties. Also the solubility behavior towards xanthate 20 reactions was assessed. The effect of a refining step (R) before the oxidative treatment, the 21 absence or presence of oxygen pressure, TEMPO dose (2 or 8% oven dried pulp) and reaction 22 time (8 or 20h) were thoroughly examined. Treatments conducted in the presence of oxygen 23 pressure exhibited greater amount of functional groups. Introducing a pre-refining treatment 24 resulted in similar functional groups but higher wet strength was achieved. Specifically, a high 25 W/D strength ratio was observed, indicating that wet strength-related property was satisfactorily 26 developed. Besides the fact that all Lac-T treatments caused severe cellulose degradation, no 27 fiber strength loss was detected. In fact, all oxidized samples presented higher wet zero-span 28 tensile strength, mainly in R+ Lac-T (O 2 ) sample, which suggested the formation of hemiacetal 29 linkages between the new introduced aldehyde groups and available free hydroxyl groups 30 resulting from fibrillation. 31 32
23An enzymatic biobleaching sequence (L VA QPO) using laccase from Trametes villosa in 24 combination with violuric acid (VA) and followed by a pressurized hydrogen peroxide
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