Preparation of Degradable Wood Cellulose Films Using Ionic Liquids

Abstract

Biodegradable films prepared from cellulose have been developed in recent years. In this work, six kinds of wood cellulose films (WCFs) were successfully prepared using wood cellulose as raw materials and six ionic liquids (ILs) as solvents. The structure and properties of WCFs produced using six imidazole-based and 1,5-diazabicyclo[4.3.o]non-5-ene (DBN)-based ILs were investigated systematically. It indicated that the WCFs produced from 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium diethyl phosphate ([Emim]DEP) had a maximum transmittance of 90.1% and tensile strength of 124.5 MPa, which were much higher than the counterparts to 26.2% and 42.0 MPa of the WCFs produced using DBN-based ILs. Moreover, the structure and properties of WCFs and ILs had a little change after five recycles. Based on that, we used the screened [Emim]DEP as a solvent to prepare a highly efficient ultraviolet (UV)-to-red light conversion cellulose film (LCF) by doping rare-earth light-converting particles, CaAlSiN3:Eu2+ (CASN). Results showed that the LCF emitted red light at 640 nm and had excellent light conversion ability, which was conducive to photosynthesis.