Cellulose acetate (CA) is a well-known polymer derived from cellulose with many advantages, such as good mechanical properties, good hydrolytic stability, low toxicity, environmental-friendly properties and relatively low cost. In this paper, nano-crystalline cellulose was modified by grafting with methacrylamide and then mixing with CA to make films. The CA films with modified nano-crystalline cellulose showed good antibacterial properties after chlorination. In addition, solid-state NMR spectroscopy and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) of modified nano-crystalline cellulose were investigated. FTIR spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray crystallography and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) were used to study the CA films containing modified nano-crystalline cellulose and their cytocompatibility was assessed.

Antibacterial cellulose acetate films containing N-halamine modified nanocrystalline cellulose

249th National Meeting (2015)

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