The effect of consistency on the shear rheology of aqueous suspensions of cellulose micro- and nanofibrils: a review

While the raw material type and the production method of cellulose micro- and nanofibrils (CMNFs) strongly affect the absolute values of the rheological parameters of their aqueous suspensions, the dependence of these parameters on consistency, c , is found to be uniform. The consistency index and y...

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Published in:Cellulose (London) 2020-03, Vol.27 (4), p.1879-1897
Main Author: Koponen, Antti I.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bioorganic Chemistry
Cellulose
Ceramics
Chemistry
Chemistry and Materials Science
Composites
Consistency
Entanglement
Glass
Natural Materials
Organic Chemistry
Parameters
Physical Chemistry
Polymer Sciences
Production methods
Review Paper
Rheological properties
Rheology
Scaling laws
Sustainable Development
Yield stress
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Summary:While the raw material type and the production method of cellulose micro- and nanofibrils (CMNFs) strongly affect the absolute values of the rheological parameters of their aqueous suspensions, the dependence of these parameters on consistency, c , is found to be uniform. The consistency index and yield stress of CMNF suspensions follow generally the scaling laws K ∼ c 2.43 and τ y ∼ c 2.26 , respectively, and a decent approximation for flow index is n = 0.30 × c - 0.43 . The variability of reported scaling exponents of these materials is likely mainly due to experimental uncertainties and not so much due to fundamentally different rheology. It is suggested that the reason behind the apparently universal rheological behavior of CMNF suspensions is the strong entanglement of fibrils; the flow dynamics of typical CMNF suspensions is dominated by interactions between fibril flocs and not by interactions between individual fibrils. Graphic abstract
ISSN:0969-0239
1572-882X
DOI:10.1007/s10570-019-02908-w