Cellulose crystallite sizes in diploid and tetraploid native cotton

✍ Scribed by A. V. Moharir; P. Kiekens

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 110 KB
• Volume: 68
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-8995
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4628(19980627)68:13<2107::aid-app6>3.0.co;2-g

✦ Synopsis

Cellulose crystallite sizes in directions perpendicular to (101), (101 V ), and (002) planes, have been estimated from X-ray powder diffraction patterns. The diffraction peaks were resolved using the FIT X-ray diffraction data analysis program (written by SOCABIM, Siemens DIFFRAC AT Software System, Siemens, Germany). The complete data for all the three equatorial planes was analyzed for 2u, d values, full width at half-maximum (FWHM), and the normalized area under the three diffraction peaks, for seven cotton cultivars grown at four different locations in India in different crop years. The mean crystallite sizes were determined using the Scherrer equation. The reference standard included degummed and purified ramie fibers for relative crystallinity estimation in cotton cultivars. It has been observed that, though the computed crystallite sizes corresponding to (101), (101 V ), and (002) planes vary within individual varieties with location and year of growth, the combined average crystallite size corresponding to ( 101) and (101 V ) planes taken together for individual varieties from all locations and crop years is close to the combined average crystallite size corresponding to the (002) planes, irrespective of the species of cotton. The values of the average relative crystallinity with respect to highly oriented degummed and purified ramie fibers of individual varieties from all locations and crop years do not significantly vary between varieties and species of cotton. It is visualized that variations in crystallite sizes arise as a result of the differences in the amount of cellulose synthesized within fibers of individual varieties and their disposition within the matrix of their developing fibers.