Enhancing the Oxygen Barrier Properties of Nanocellulose at High Humidity: Numerical and Experimental Assessment by Ali H. Tayeb Mehdi Tajvidi & Douglas Bousfield
Author:Ali H. Tayeb, Mehdi Tajvidi & Douglas Bousfield
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Tags: Films formed from cellulose nanofibrils (CNFs) are known to be good barrier materials against oxygen, but they lose this feature once placed in humid conditions. To tackle this issue, we applied an optimized pressing condition under elevated temperature to increase the films’ density and improve their barrier performance. Furthermore, a water barrier coating was employed on the surfaces to control the moisture uptake at high relative humidity (RH). Neat self-standing films of CNF with the basis weight of 70 g/m2 were made through a filtration technique and pressed for 1 h at 130 C. The resulting nanostructures were covered on both sides using a water-borne barrier layer. Hot-pressing resulted in a significant reduction in oxygen transmission rate (OTR) values, from 516.7 to 3.6 (cm3/(m2day)) and to some degree, helped preserve the reduced oxygen transmission at high relative humidity. Introducing 35 g/m2 of latex coating layer on both sides limited the films’ swelling at 90% RH for about 4 hours and maintained the OTR at the same level. A finite element model was used to predict the dynamic uptake of water into the systems. The model was found to over-predict the rate of water uptake for uncoated samples but gave the correct order of magnitude results for samples that were coated. The obtained data confirmed the positive effect of hot-pressing combined with coating to produce a film with low oxygen transmission rate and potential to maintain its oxygen barrier feature at high relative humidity., cellulose nanofibrils; latex coating; oxygen barrier property; relative humidity; hot press
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