| Abstract: | The following basic conclusions were drawn from the published data examined; cellulose treated in steamblast conditions can form solutions and gelling pastes in an aqueous solution of sodium hydroxide; the solubility of cellulose in aqueous sodium hydroxide solution is primarily a function of the intramolecular bonds in the cellobiose unit with constant DP; intramolecular bonds are most efficiently broken in steamblast treatment in the cellobiose unit of cellulose I and cellulose III; monofilaments and yarns were obtained from solutions and gelling pastes of cellulose in aqueous sodium hydroxide solution; the physicomechanical properties of the monofilaments and yarns obtained from solutions and gelling pastes of cellulose in aqueous sodium hydroxide solution are still significantly lower than these indexes for viscose textile yarn.All-Russian Scientific-Research Institute of Polymer Fibres. Mytishchi. Translated from Khimicheskie Volokna, No. 2, pp. 11–14, March–April. 1996. |
