Cellulose fibers, cellulose fiber-containing composition, cellulose fiber dispersion, and method for producing cellulose fibers
AssigneeOji Holdings Corporation
InventorsMengchen ZHAO, Yusuke TODOROKI, Yuichi NOGUCHI, Ikue SUGIYAMA
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Abstract
It is an object of the present invention to provide ultrafine cellulose fibers capable of exhibiting favorable dispersibility even in an organic solvent. The present invention relates to cellulose fibers having a fiber width of 1000 nm or less and having phosphoric acid groups or phosphoric acid group-derived substituents, wherein the content of the phosphoric acid groups or phosphoric acid group-derived substituents is 0.5 mmol/g or more, and the supernatant yield measured by an measurement method (a) is 70% or less.
Claims7
Cellulose fibers having a fiber width of 1000 nm or less and having phosphoric acid groups or phosphoric acid group-derived substituents, wherein
- the content of the phosphoric acid groups or phosphoric acid group-derived substituents is 0.5 mmol/g or more, and
- the supernatant yield measured by the following measurement method (a) is 70% or less;
- measurement method (a):
- an aqueous dispersion A of the cellulose fibers having a solid concentration of 0.5% by mass is prepared, a defibration treatment is then performed on the aqueous dispersion A using a defibration treatment device under conditions of 21500 rotations/minute for 30 minutes to obtain an aqueous dispersion B;
- subsequently, the aqueous dispersion B is converted to an aqueous dispersion C having a solid concentration of 0.2% by mass, which is then subjected to a centrifugation treatment under conditions of 12000 G and 15° C. for 10 minutes, and then, a supernatant is recovered;
- and the solid concentration in the recovered supernatant is measured, and a supernatant yield is then calculated according to the following equation:
- Supernatant yield (%)=solid concentration (% by mass) in supernatant/0.2 (% by mass)×100.
A method for producing cellulose fibers, comprising:
- subjecting cellulose fibers having 0.5 mmol/g or more of phosphoric acid groups or phosphoric acid group-derived substituents to a defibration treatment in an aqueous solvent, to obtain an aqueous dispersion comprising cellulose fibers having a fiber width of 1000 nm or less;
- and
- adding at least one selected from organic onium ions having hydrocarbon groups containing 5 or more carbon atoms, and organic onium ions having a total carbon number of 17 or more, to the aqueous dispersion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.