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Improvement of bagasse fiber–cement composites by addition of bacterial nanocellulose: an inverse gas chromatography study
The design of green fiber-reinforced
nanocomposites with enhanced properties and dura bility has attracted attention from scientists. The
present study aims to investigate the potential of
bacterial nanocellulose (BNC) as a green additive for
fiber–cement composites. Inverse gas chromatography
(IGC) was used to evaluate the influence of incorpo ration of BNC as powder or gel, or coated onto the
bagasse fibers, on the fiber–cement composite (FCC)
surface. The results indicated that BNC incorporation
made the FCC surface more reactive, increasing the
dispersive component of the surface energy. The most
relevant effects were found for BNC incorporation as
gel or coated on the fibers. Incorporation of BNC as
gel resulted in a predominantly organic FCC surface
with substantial decreased surface basicity (Ka/Kb
ratio from 2.88 to 5.75). IGC also showed that FCC
with BNC incorporated as gel was more susceptible to
hydration. However, BNC coated on fibers prevented
fiber mineralization, increasing the inorganic materi als at the surface, which caused an increase in the
surface basicity (Ka/Kb ratio decrease to 2.00). These
promising results could contribute to development of a
new generation of green hybrid composites. The IGC
technique enabled understanding of the physicochem ical changes that occur on deliberate introduction of
nanosized bacterial cellulose into fiber–cement
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Production of bacterial cellulose fibers in the presence of effective microorganism
In this study, effective microorganism (EM) was added into fermentation
medium in static culture to enhance bacterial cellulose (BC) production
by Acetobacter xylinum 23769 strain. According to SEM micrographs, BC
pellicles from BC-Baikal EM1 show a smaller diameter and a relatively
narrow diameter distribution compared to BC pellicles from
Hestrin-Schramm (HS) medium. The BC-HS absorbed 90.5 times its dry
weight of water. The water holding capacity increased to 132.5 for
BC-Baikal EM1 medium compared to BC-HS. From the FT-IR spectra, BC
samples exhibited a similar pattern. The crystalline indices of Baikal
EM1-altered BC (66\%) were lower than Baikal EM1-free BC (71\%)