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Cellulose nanocrystals as reinforcements for collagen-based casings with low gas transmission

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Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) of excellent mechanical properties, high purity, high aspect ratio, and cost-efficient production have drawn many attentions as a new class of reinforcement nanofillers. We chose CNCs as reinforcement nanofillers, which were incorporated in collagen to prepare CNCs/collagen casings by a traditional extruding method. The effects of CNCs on these casings were investigated. The dispersity and compatibility of CNCs within the collagen are rather good. The presence of CNCs can improve the light transmittance, barrier property, tensile strength, Young’s modulus, and thermostability of the CNCs/collagen casings, where collagen might cross-link with CNCs by electrostatic and hydrogen bonding interaction. When the CNCs content is 4 wt%, the water vapor permeability of CNCs/collagen casing reaches the minimum of 0.18 g·mm/h·m2·KPa. That concentration gave the highest light transmittance, and the mechanical properties were optimal. The development of CNCs/collagen casings represents an important potential to extend shelf life by the prevention of lipid oxidation and water loss of sausages.

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Acknowledgments

We thank the Independent Innovation and Achievement Transformation Project in Shandong Province (2014CGZH0303), the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2013YQ190467), Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDA09030305), and the National Science Foundation of China (81361140345, 51373043, 21535001) for financial support.

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  1. Beijing Engineering Research Center for BioNanotechnology and CAS Key Laboratory for Biological Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for NanoScience and Technology, Beijing, 100190, China

    Keying Long, Ruitao Cha, Yapei Zhang, Juanjuan Li, Fangping Ren & Xingyu Jiang

  2. College of Chemical Engineering and Material Science, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin, 300457, China

    Keying Long

  3. Key Laboratory of Functional Polymer Materials of Ministry of Education, Institute of Polymer Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, China

    Yapei Zhang

  4. The University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Xingyu Jiang

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Long, K., Cha, R., Zhang, Y. et al. Cellulose nanocrystals as reinforcements for collagen-based casings with low gas transmission. Cellulose 25, 463–471 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-017-1569-2

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