PMID- 16730019 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20070928 LR - 20131121 IS - 0021-9797 (Print) IS - 0021-9797 (Linking) VI - 301 IP - 1 DP - 2006 Sep 1 TI - Surface characterization by XPS, contact angle measurements and ToF-SIMS of cellulose fibers partially esterified with fatty acids. PG - 205-9 AB - The topochemistry of the controlled heterogeneous esterification of cellulose fibers with fatty acid chlorides of different chain length, both in swelling and non-swelling media, was assessed by X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS), Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) and contact angle measurements. On the one hand, the results provided by the combined use of these three powerful techniques showed unambiguously the occurrence of the reaction at the fibers' surface and, on the other hand, the XPS results showed that the surface coverage with the fatty acid moieties increased with their chain length, but was only modestly affected by the degree of substitution (DS), suggesting that when the esterification yield was increased (higher DS values), an in-depth reaction also occurred, particularly when DMF was used as a cellulose swelling medium, involving the OH groups buried below the fibers' surface. FAU - Freire, Carmen S R AU - Freire CS AD - CICECO and Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro, Campus de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal. cfreire@dq.ua.pt FAU - Silvestre, Armando J D AU - Silvestre AJ FAU - Pascoal Neto, Carlos AU - Pascoal Neto C FAU - Gandini, Alessandro AU - Gandini A FAU - Fardim, Pedro AU - Fardim P FAU - Holmbom, Bjarne AU - Holmbom B LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20060429 PL - United States TA - J Colloid Interface Sci JT - Journal of colloid and interface science JID - 0043125 RN - 0 (Biocompatible Materials) RN - 0 (Fatty Acids) RN - 0 (Formamides) RN - 8696NH0Y2X (Dimethylformamide) RN - 9004-34-6 (Cellulose) SB - IM MH - Adsorption MH - Biocompatible Materials/*chemistry MH - Cellulose/*chemistry MH - Dimethylformamide MH - Esterification MH - Fatty Acids/*chemistry MH - Formamides/chemistry MH - Materials Testing/*methods MH - Spectrometry, Mass, Secondary Ion MH - *Spectrum Analysis MH - Surface Properties MH - X-Rays EDAT- 2006/05/30 09:00 MHDA- 2007/09/29 09:00 CRDT- 2006/05/30 09:00 PHST- 2006/03/13 00:00 [received] PHST- 2006/04/26 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2006/04/27 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2006/05/30 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2007/09/29 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2006/05/30 09:00 [entrez] AID - S0021-9797(06)00390-0 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.jcis.2006.04.074 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Colloid Interface Sci. 2006 Sep 1;301(1):205-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jcis.2006.04.074. Epub 2006 Apr 29.