Physico-Chemical Characteristics of Fine Nano Scaled Carbon Fibres from Bacterial Cellulose
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Recently, carbon nanofibers have gained immense attention in research due to its tremendous application. Here, this work highlights a simple, cost effective and reliable method to develop carbon nanofibers (CNF) from biomass. The biomass used is bacterial cellulose (BC) synthesiSed using Acetobacter xylinus. CNF was developed by freeze drying of BC followed by pyrolysis at different temperatures (300 oC 900 oC). The conversions of BC to CNF were characterised using SEM, FTIR, TGA and XRD respectively. The results exhibit three dimensional, lightweight, fine nanoscale fibers with a diameter of 10 nm which are tend to have hydrophobic and lipophilic characters, due to which it can be used in oil – water separation applications.
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