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Studies on mechanisms to form disordered regions periodically present along cellulose microfibrils in isolated wood celluloses

Research Project

Project/Area Number 17H03840
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Wood science
Research InstitutionThe University of Tokyo

Principal Investigator

Isogai Akira  東京大学, 大学院農学生命科学研究科(農学部), 教授 (40191879)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 齋藤 継之  東京大学, 大学院農学生命科学研究科(農学部), 准教授 (90533993)
堀川 祥生  東京農工大学, (連合)農学研究科(研究院), 特任准教授 (90637711)
Project Period (FY) 2017-04-01 – 2020-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2019)
Budget Amount *help
¥15,990,000 (Direct Cost: ¥12,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,690,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥3,640,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥840,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥3,640,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥840,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥8,710,000 (Direct Cost: ¥6,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,010,000)
Keywordsセルロース / レベルオフ重合度 / セルロースミクロフィブリル / 非晶領域 / セルロースナノファイバー / セルロースナノクリスタル / TEMPO / TEMPO触媒酸化 / 希酸加水分解
Outline of Final Research Achievements

When higher plant cellulose fibers are subjected to dilute acid hydrolysis at high temperatures, the hydrolyzed celluloses have always low and constant degrees of polymerization of 200-300, called "levelling-off degrees of polymerization or LODPs". This research project was to make clear the formation mechanism of LODPs. As a consequence, the LODPs were found to be formed from plant cellulose fibers through dilute acid hydrolysis, depending on the cellulose content of the fibers and drying conditions; the disordered regions periodically present along the longitudinal direction in each cellulose microfibril, corresponding to LODPs, are formed during isolation/purification/drying processes, and not present in the pristine cellulose microfibrils. These results would expand versatile chemical reactions of plant cellulose fibers under acid conditions using never-dried plant cellulose fibers as starting materials by avoiding remarkable depolymerization of the chemically reacted celluloses.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

これまで植物セルロース繊維の化学反応においては、酸性条件下での反応は著しい分子量低下が避けられないため、合成高分子分野のような幅広く多様な化学反応の適用には限界があった。しかし、本研究により、低分子化の要因となる非晶領域の生成が、単離-精製過程での乾燥条件に依存することが明らかになった。従って、乾燥条件を避けて未乾燥セルロース繊維を出発素材として用いることにより、高強度物性の発現に関与する高分子量を有する、セルロースの誘導体化、セルロースの酸化等の多様な化学反応が、酸性下でも可能となり、再生産可能なバイオマスであるセルロースの有効利用、高機能化につながる成果が得られた。

Report

(4 results)
  • 2019 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2018 Annual Research Report
  • 2017 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (25 results)

All 2020 2019 2018 2017

All Journal Article (6 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 6 results,  Open Access: 1 results) Presentation (19 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 6 results,  Invited: 5 results)

  • [Journal Article] Changes to the Contour Length, Molecular Chain Length, and Solid-State Structures of Nanocellulose Resulting from Sonication in Water2020

    • Author(s)
      Yaxin Zhou, Yuko Ono, Miyuki Takeuchi, Akira Isogai
    • Journal Title

      Biomacromolecules

      Volume: 21 Issue: 6 Pages: 2346-2355

    • DOI

      10.1021/acs.biomac.0c00281

    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Characterization of cellulose microfibrils, cellulose molecules, and hemicelluloses in buckwheat and rice husks2019

    • Author(s)
      Yasutaka Nakamura, Yuko Ono, Tsuguyuki Saito, Akira Isogai
    • Journal Title

      Cellulose

      Volume: 26 Issue: 11 Pages: 6529-6541

    • DOI

      10.1007/s10570-019-02560-4

    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Relationship of Distribution of Carboxy Groups to Molar Mass Distribution of TEMPO-Oxidized Algal, Cotton, and Wood Cellulose Nanofibrils2019

    • Author(s)
      Yuko Ono, Shunsuke Fukui, Ryunosuke Funahashi, Akira Isogai
    • Journal Title

      Biomacromolecules

      Volume: 20 Issue: 10 Pages: 4026-4034

    • DOI

      10.1021/acs.biomac.9b01110

    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Investigation of stability of branched structures in softwood cellulose using SEC/ MALLS/RI/UV and sugar composition analyses2018

    • Author(s)
      Yuko Ono, Ryunosuke Funahashi, Tsuguyuki Saito, Akira Isogai
    • Journal Title

      Cellulose

      Volume: 25 Issue: 4 Pages: 2667-2679

    • DOI

      10.1007/s10570-018-1713-7

    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report 2018 Annual Research Report 2017 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Development of completely dispersed cellulose nanofibers2018

    • Author(s)
      Akira Isogai
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series B

      Volume: 94 Issue: 4 Pages: 161-179

    • DOI

      10.2183/pjab.94.012

    • NAID

      130006691114

    • ISSN
      0386-2208, 1349-2896
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Changes in the degree of polymerization of wood celluloses duringdilute acid hydrolysis and TEMPO-mediated oxidation: Formationmechanism of disordered regions along each cellulose microfibril2018

    • Author(s)
      Ryunosuke Funahashi, Yuko Ono, Reina Tanaka, Morihiko Yokoi, Kunihiko Daido, Toru Inamochi, Tsuguyuki Saito, Yoshiki Horikawa, Akira Isogai
    • Journal Title

      International Journal of Biological Macromolecules

      Volume: 109 Pages: 914-920

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2017.11.078

    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] 13CO2ラベリングを用いたポプラ木部における光合成産物の分布解析2019

    • Author(s)
      竹内美由紀、測定真利子、磯貝 明
    • Organizer
      第69回日本木材学会大会
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report 2018 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] SEC-MALLS測定による様々な樹種・植物種のホロセルロースの分子構造解析2019

    • Author(s)
      小野祐子、中村泰隆、齋藤継之、磯貝 明
    • Organizer
      第69回日本木材学会大会
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 13CO2ラベリングと13C分布解析を用いた木部形成過程の研究2019

    • Author(s)
      石田 傑、竹内美由紀、則定真利子、磯貝 明
    • Organizer
      第69回日本木材学会大会
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 様々な天然セルロースミクロフィブリルの長さ方向における高次構造評価2019

    • Author(s)
      松尾風香、半 智史、船田 良、堀川祥生、山岸祐介、齋藤継之、磯貝 明
    • Organizer
      第69回日本木材学会大会
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Distribution of carboxyl groups in TEMPO-oxidized celluloses2019

    • Author(s)
      Yuko Ono, Tsuguyuki Saito, Akira Isogai
    • Organizer
      American Chemical Society National Meeting & Expo
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Preparation and characterization of TEMPO-oxidized cellulose nanonetworks, nanofibers, and nanocrystals2019

    • Author(s)
      Akira Isogai
    • Organizer
      American Chemical Society National Meeting & Expo
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Biomass refinery-related fundamentals and applications2019

    • Author(s)
      Akira Isogai
    • Organizer
      HYBER-FinnCERES Symposium 2019
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] パルプ化方法が針葉樹セルロース分子の分岐構造に与える影響2019

    • Author(s)
      小野祐子、磯貝 明
    • Organizer
      第86回紙パルプ研究発表会
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] セルロース科学研究の課題と解決へのアプローチ2019

    • Author(s)
      磯貝 明
    • Organizer
      セルロース学会第 26 回年次大会
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 天然セルロースミクロフィブリルの長さ方向における非晶領域の形成メカニズム2019

    • Author(s)
      松尾風香、半 智史、船田 良、堀川祥生、山岸祐介、齋藤継之、磯貝 明
    • Organizer
      セルロース学会第 26 回年次大会
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 13CO2投与と13C分布解析を用いた木部細胞形成についての研究2019

    • Author(s)
      石田 傑、竹内美由紀、磯貝 明、則定真利子
    • Organizer
      セルロース学会第 26 回年次大会
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] SEC-MALLS測定による様々な樹種・植物種のホロセルロースの分子構造解析2019

    • Author(s)
      小野祐子,中村泰隆,齋藤継之,磯貝 明
    • Organizer
      第69回日本木材学会大会
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 13CO2ラベリングと13C分布解析を用いた木部形成過程の研究2019

    • Author(s)
      石田 傑,竹内美由紀,則定真利子,磯貝 明
    • Organizer
      第69回日本木材学会大会
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] HPLCオンライン粘度検出器によるセルロース試料の構造解析および粘度法によるセルロース分子量測定方法の検証2018

    • Author(s)
      小野祐子,齋藤継之,磯貝 明
    • Organizer
      第85回紙パルプ研究発表会
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 難溶解性セルロース試料のSEC/MALLS測定法の確立および構造解析2018

    • Author(s)
      小野祐子,齋藤継之,磯貝 明
    • Organizer
      セルロース学会第25回年次大会
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Disordered structures in plant cellulose microfibrils in terms of leveling-off DP and layer-by-layer surface peeling of microfibrils2017

    • Author(s)
      Akira Isogai
    • Organizer
      The 235th American Chemical Society National Spring Meeting
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] セルロース系試料のSEC/MALLS測定による分子量分布と構造解析2017

    • Author(s)
      小野祐子、齋藤継之、磯貝 明
    • Organizer
      紙パルプ研究発表会
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] SEC/MALLS analyses of cellulose, cellulose derivatives and chitin2017

    • Author(s)
      Akira Isogai
    • Organizer
      European-Japanese Workshop on Cellulose and Functional Polysaccharides 2017
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Branched structures of softwood cellulose molecules in high-molar-mass fraction revealed by SEC/MALLS/RI/UV analysis2017

    • Author(s)
      Yuko Ono, Tsuguyuki Saito, Akira Isogai
    • Organizer
      The 255th American Chemical Society National Spring Meeting
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited

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Published: 2017-04-28   Modified: 2021-02-19  

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