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DEVELOPMENT OF THIN FILMS FROM THERMOMECHANICAL PULP NANOFIBERS OF RADIATA PINE (PINUS RADIATA D. DON) FOR APPLICATIONS IN BIO-BASED NANOCOMPOSITES

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THE MAIN OBJECTIVE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO DEVELOP CELLULOSE NANOFIBERS FROM THE THERMOME- CHANICAL PULP (TMP) OF RADIATA PINE (PINUS RADIATA D. DON), AND FOR THIS, A ONE-STEP MICRO-GRINDING PROCESS WAS USED. THE NEWLY DEVELOPED MATERIAL WAS CALLED THERMOMECHANICAL PULP NANOFIBERS (TMP-NF). IN THE FIRST INSTANCE, A DETERMINATION OF THE CONSTITUENTS OF THE TMP WAS CARRIED OUT THROUGH A CHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION. THEN, TMP-NFS WERE COMPARED WITH CELLULOSE NANOFIBERS (CNF) BY MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS (SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY, SEM, AND ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY, AFM), X-RAY DIFFRACTION (XRD) AND FOURIER-TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY WITH ATTENUATED TOTAL REFLECTION (FTIR-ATR). IN ADDITION, FILMS WERE DEVELOPED FROM TMP-NF AND CNF USING A VACUUM FILTRATION MANUFACTURING METHOD. FOR THIS STUDY, 0.10, 0.25, 0.50, AND 1.00% DRY WEIGHT OF CNF AND TMP- NF WERE USED AS CONTINUOUS MATRICES WITHOUT ORGANIC SOLVENTS........
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radiata pine thermomechanical pulp, micro-grinding, cellulose nanofibers with lignin, bio-based nanocomposites
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