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Volume 3, Issue 4 (Suppl)
Nano Res Appl
ISSN: 2471-9838
November 07-08, 2017 Singapore
International Meeting on
Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology
Nanomaterials Meetings 2017
November 07-08, 2017
Page 35
Environmental friendly superabsorbent polymers (SAPs) based on cellulose nanofibers (CNFs)
Seyed Rahman Djafari Petroudy, Jalal Ranjbar and Esmaeil Rasooly Garmaroody
Shahid Beheshti University, Iran
T
he current study was aimed to use CNF as strength enhancer of two naturally superabsorbents (SAPs) i.e., Acrylic Acid (AA) and
Carboxymethyl Cellulose (CMC) based SAPs. The results showed that increasing the CNF content may be resulted in decreasing
the Swelling Capacity (SC) of the produced SAPs. The produced SAPs showed excellent swelling capacity in comparison to sodium
polyacrylate based SAPs and due to biodegradable and non-toxic properties can be replaced with aforementioned SAPs. The Ionic
Sensitivity (IS) of all produced SAPs was investigated and resulted in increased and decreased IS with increasing the CMC and CNF
content respectively. Centrifuged swelling resulted sufficient strength of the SAPs based on AA during the water absorption due to
increasing CNF addition. Additionally, the antibacterial test also studied and the results showed that SAPs based on AA containing
chitosan had bactericidal property against
Escherichia coli
whereas CMC based SAPs exhibited no antibacterial property versus
aforesaid bacteria
Biography
Seyed Rahman Djafari Petroudy has been working as an Assistant Professor at the SBU University in Iran. He has published many interesting papers in well-known
journals such as
Carbohydate Polymers, Cellulose
and
Journal of Polymer and the Environment
.
sr_jafari@sbu.ac.irSeyed Rahman Djafari Petroudy et. al., Nano Res Appl 2017, 3:4
DOI: 10.21767/2471-9838-C1-005