Abstract
Cellulose and Ionic liquids can form new types of complex crystals growing in form of spherulites. Microfocus X-ray diffraction on selected location of a spherulite, formed from cellulose solution in 1-allyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride (AmimCl) by water vapor diffusion, gave diffraction patterns of fiber-type texture that could be used to index the diffraction spots. The unit cell dimension was tetragonal with a = b = 12.92 Å, c = 10.4 Å, at room temperature and a = b = 12.8 Å and c = 10.45 Å at 100 K with α = β = γ = 90˚. However, the symmetry of the molecule and stoichiometry suggests a space group P212121, compatible with chiral chain molecule with the systematic absence of odd-order h00, 0k0, and 00l reflections. The spherulite consists of lamellar crystallites rotating along the b axis, the latter lying in the radial direction. The half pitch of the order of 12 µm according to polarized microscopy, was smaller than the beam size leading to a fiber-like pattern. The crystallite sizes estimated from the diffraction broadening were at least of the order of 150 nm along a and b direction, limited by the instrument resolution, and about 15 ~ 30 nm along c direction. The 10.4 Å of c-axis is the typical length of two-fold helix of cellulose suggesting that cellulose chain is parallel to the c-axis. The unit cell would contain 4 glucose residues, 4 ionic liquid molecules and 4–8 water molecules.
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This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2017YFA0403103) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21704107 and 51425307). We thank the staffs from BL17B beamline of National Facility for Protein Science Shanghai (NFPS) at Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, for assistance during data collection. The measurement of single-crystal X-ray diffraction was performed at the Center for Physicochemical Analysis and Measurements in ICCAS. The help from Ms. Tongling Liang was acknowledged.
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Song, G., Zhang, J. & Nishiyama, Y. Twisted pseudo-tetragonal orthorhombic lamellar crystal in cellulose/ionic liquid spherulite. Cellulose 27, 5449–5455 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-020-03214-6
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