Facile and green fabrication of cellulosed based aerogels for lampblack filtration from waste newspaper

Peidong Fan; Yali Yuan; Junkai Ren; Bin Yuan; Qian He; Guangmei Xia; Fengxia Chen; Rui Song

doi:10.1016/j.carbpol.2017.01.015

Facile and green fabrication of cellulosed based aerogels for lampblack filtration from waste newspaper

Carbohydr Polym. 2017 Apr 15:162:108-114. doi: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2017.01.015. Epub 2017 Jan 5.

Authors

Peidong Fan¹, Yali Yuan¹, Junkai Ren¹, Bin Yuan², Qian He¹, Guangmei Xia³, Fengxia Chen¹, Rui Song⁴

Affiliations

¹ College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China.
² College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China; Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Engineering Plastics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.
³ Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Engineering Plastics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.
⁴ College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China. Electronic address: rsong@ucas.ac.cn.

PMID: 28224887
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2017.01.015

Abstract

In this study, the lightweight, hydrophobic and porous cellulose-based aerogels (CAGs) were synthesized through a freeze-drying process using waste newspaper as the only raw material. After crosslinking with glutaraldehyde and treatment with trimethylchlorosilane (TMCS) using a simple thermal chemical vapor deposition process, the resulting CAGs became hydrophobic and oleophilic. Furthermore, the as-prepared CAGs exhibited a low density (17.4-28.7mgcm^-3) and mesoporous inner-structure. All these properties attributed the novel aerogel not only with a good adsorption capability of oils and organic solvents, including kerosene, nitrobenzene, and chloroform, but also an excellent filtration capacity of lampblack.

Keywords: Aerogel; Cellulose; Cellulose based aerogel; Waste newspaper.

MeSH terms

Cellulose / chemistry*
Filtration
Gels / chemical synthesis*
Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions
Oils

Substances

Gels
Oils
Cellulose