Items for "papermaking"

First characterization of the development of bleached kraft softwood pulp fiber interfaces during drying and rewetting using FRET microscopy

Cellulosic fiber interfaces are critical to the material properties of paper. Likewise, the presence of water in a paper sheet is an important property, because paper is a wet-laid structure and the cellulosic fibers that compose it are hygroscopic...

Keywords: bleached kraft softwood pulp, cellulose fibers, fiber bonding, fluorescence microscopy, fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET), material interfaces, papermaking, water removal