AUTHOR=Song Yan , Liu Shaoyang , Ben Haoxi , Zhang Yuanming , Han Guangting , Ragauskas Arthur J. , Jiang Wei 

TITLE=Research on Chemically Deuterated Cellulose Macroperformance and Fast Identification

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Plant Science

VOLUME=Volume 12 - 2021

YEAR=2021

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/plant-science/articles/10.3389/fpls.2021.709692

DOI=10.3389/fpls.2021.709692

ISSN=1664-462X

ABSTRACT=Chemically deuterated cellulose fiber was expected to provide novel applications due to its spectral, biological, and kinetic isotope effect. In this research, the chemically deuterated cotton fibers’ performance including mechanical property, enzymatic degradation performance, effect on bacterial treatment and fast identification (near-infrared modeling) were investigated. The breaking tenacity of the deuterated cotton fibers were slightly lower, which might be attributed to the structure damage during the chemical deuteration. The glucose yield by enzymatic hydrolysis were less than that of the protonic cotton fibers, meaning the deuterated fibers are less sensitive to enzymatic degradation. Furthermore, the deuterated fibers could promote the growth of bacterial such as E’coli, which was associated with the released low-level deuterium content. At last, the near-infrared technique combined with partial least squares regression successfully achieved a fast identification of the protiated and deuterated cotton fibers, which significantly promoted the potential application of deuterated cellulose as anti-counterfeiting materials (e.g., special paper).