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Electrospun Silk-Cellulose Composite Nanomaterials Using Ionic Liquid Regenerated Films

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Author	Rivera-Galletti, Ashley Xue, Ye Love, Stacy de la Cruz, David Salas Hu, Xiao
Copyright Year	2020
Description	Electrospinning is a widely used technique to draw recalcitrant biopolymer solutions into micro to nanoscale materials in a simple and economical way. The first focus of this research involved using ionic liquids as a non-volatile solvent for natural insoluble biopolymers such as silk and cellulose (or cellulose derivatives). Compared to traditional organic solvents, ionic liquids can dissolve biopolymers without altering the molecular weight of the biopolymer. In this study, 1-ethyl-3-methylimidizolium acetate (EMIMAc) ionic liquid was used and the regenerated films were coagulated in baths of EtOH or water. The second focus of this research explored the dissolution of IL-regenerated composites into organic solvents and their electrospun composite nanomaterials. Various ratios of silk-cellulose bio-composite films regenerated from ionic liquids were used as the raw materials and sequentially dissolved/dispersed into a Formic Acid-CaCl2 solution in order to initiate the electrospinning of silk-cellulose nanomaterials. Because of the variability of ionic liquids, the nanomaterials produced using this technique have unique and tunable properties such as large surface area to volume ratios and low structural defects. FTIR and SEM results suggest that the structure and morphology of the final nanosized samples becomes more globular when the biopolymer composition ratio has increased cellulose content. TGA results demonstrated that the electrospun materials have better thermal stability than the original films. This two-step electrospinning method, using ionic liquid as a non-volatile solvent to first dissolve and mix raw natural materials, may lead to extensive research into its biomedical and pharmaceutical applications in the future.
Starting Page	31
e-ISSN	25043900
DOI	10.3390/CGPM2020-07597
Journal	Proceedings
Issue Number	1
Volume Number	69
Language	English
Publisher	MDPI
Publisher Date	2020-11-09
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Proceedings Textiles Ionic Liquids Electrospinning Silk Cellulose Biomaterials
Content Type	Text

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