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CHAPTER 9
Ball-milling Promoted
Chemical Bonding between
Cellulose and Plastics
TAKAHIRO HIROTSU,*
a
TAKASHI ENDO
b
AND
MYCO UMEMURA
c
a
Shikoku Collaboration Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial
Science and Technology, 2217-14 Hayashi-cho, Takamatsu 761-0395,
Japan;
b
Biomass Refinery Research Center, National Institute of
Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, 3-11-32 Kagamiyama,
Higashi-hiroshima 739-0046, Japan;
c
Bioproduction Research Institute,
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, 2-17-2-1
Tsukisamu-higashi, Toyohira Ward, Sapporo 062-8517, Japan
*Email: takahiro-hirotsu@aist.go.jp
9.1 Introduction
Cellulose has attracted growing interest as the most promising material to
take the place of synthetic polymers to a considerable extent in the twenty-
first century, because of its massive reproducibility and environmental
benefits, as compared with the later polymers derived from fossil fuel re-
sources.
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While cellulose is photosynthesized in plants, algae, etc., as much
as two or three hundreds billion tons every year on the earth, it is a raw
material that causes diculties in chemical or engineering processes, owing
to its insolubility in the usual solvents as well as having no thermoplasticity.
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