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Absorption properties of paper treated with different chemicals. 

Absorption properties of paper treated with different chemicals. 

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The cellulose paper treated in proportional mixture systems showed higher liquid absorption compare to only EtOH and MeOH treatments. It was approximately 40-70% and 50-91% higher for EtOH-NaOH and MeOH-NaOH treated papers, respectively. All conditions apparently bring about an effect of decreased strength for papers. The lowest tensile strength of...

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... data were collected in the range of 4000-400 cm -1 . Figure 1 shows liquid sorption properties of papers which are treated in water (A), (anhydrous) ethanol (B), (anhydrous) methanol (C), 1 N sodium hydroxide (D), up to five repeating drying and wetting stages. It can be revealed that the highest sorption occured with sample D (230.5% in 1 st cycle and 179.8% in 5 th cycle) followed by sample A (182.3% in 1 st cycle and 170.6% in 5 th cycle), sample B (109.4% in 1 st cycle and 97.6% in 5 th cycle), and sample C (101.5% in 1 st cycle and 84.3% in 5 th cycle), respectively. ...
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... 1 N sodium hydroxide treated sample (D) has considerably higher absorption value than others. After 5 th repeating wetting-drying cycle, the sample D shows approximately 6% higher absorption from sample A, 85% from sample B and 114% from sample C, respectively (Figure 1). It can be attributed to reorientation of microfibrils and a better alignment of cellulose chains in sheet network structure that promote additional H-bonding sites for liquid. ...
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... the variable sorption properties of sheets that treated with mixtures of ethanol and methanol with alkali, at similar conditions clearly reveals that the liquid absorption into paper sheet structure closely related to nature of the liquid (pH) and its surface tension as revealed in Figures 1-3. Moreover, it has already proposed that swelling and sorption properties of papers in alkali conditions were higher than acidic conditions [6][7][8][9]. ...
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... the ratio of adsorbed Direct Orange 15 to adsorbed Direct Blue I is anticipated to serve as an indicator of the pore structure, specifically, the pore size population distribution of the paper. Simons stain results are usually correlated with strength and sorption properties of papers (Figures 1-5). ...

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