A novel X-ray diffraction approach to assess the crystallinity of regenerated cellulose fibers

Here, a new accurate approach is presented to quantify the degree of crystallinity of regenerated cellulose textile fibers using wide-angle X-ray scattering. The approach is based on the observation that the contributions to the scattering from crystalline and amorphous domains of the fibers can be separated due to their different degree of orientation with respect to the fiber direction. The method is tested on Ioncell-F fibers, dry jet wet spun with different draw ratios from an ionic liquid solution. The analysis output includes, apart from an accurate estimate of the fiber crystallinity, the degrees of orientation of the cellulose nanocrystals and the cellulose chains in the amorphous domains.

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cellulose, crystalline domains, crystallinity, draw ratios, fibers, framework-structured solids and amorphous materials, nanostructure, orientations, wide-angle X-ray scattering, X-ray diffraction

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10.1107/S205225252200570X

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Gentile, L, Sixta, H, Giannini, C & Olsson, U 2022, ' A novel X-ray diffraction approach to assess the crystallinity of regenerated cellulose fibers ', IUCrJ, vol. 9, pp. 492-496 . https://doi.org/10.1107/S205225252200570X

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