ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURAL CHANGES OF CELLULOSE COMPONENT IN PROCESS OF ELEMENTARIZATION OF FLAX FIBERS

The comparative research of composition and supramolecular structure of the flax fibers received by methods of a cottonization and a mechanical elementarization under the influence of the cyclic deforming loadings was conducted. It was shown that under the influence of cyclic loadings removal of a considerable part of impurity with the increase in content of cellulose to 80.1% is reached. At the same time, division of complexes onto elementary filament provides the increase in the total surface of material and, as a result, to availability of fibers to the reagents at the subsequent alkaline boiling. X-ray analysis of flax samples with a method of comparison of the normalized parameters of diffraction by crystalline regions of cellulose allowed to establish that degree of crystallinity of a cellulose component of fibers remains constant even at deep purification of raw materials under the influence of cyclic deformations and subsequent boiling. The research of the oriented fibers by X-ray diffraction method has shown that removal of impurity from flax in the course of an elementarization has only weak influence on the sizes of crystallites of cellulose. The increase in the cross sizes of crystallites by 4 – 6% was observed at deep purification of fibers due to the boiling. This phenomenon can be connected with the decrease in influence of a diffraction maximum from impurity on half-width of the equatorial reflex 200 for cellulose Iβ. It should be noted that the longitudinal sizes of crystallites at the same time do not change. It was suggested on possible influence of decrease in content of impurity on supramolecular structure of an amorphous phase of cellulose and as a result on the observed growth of sorption and mechanical properties of flax fibers at an elementarization by method of cyclic deformation.Forcitation:Zavadskii A.E., Stokozenko V.G., Moryganov A.P., Larin I.Yu. Analysis of structural changes of cellulose component in process of elementarization of flax fibers. Izv. Vyssh. Uchebn. Zaved. Khim. Khim. Tekhnol. 2017. V. 60. N 6. P. 102-108.