| Project/Area Number |
19K23695
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Review Section |
0604:Agricultural economics and rural sociology, agricultural engineering, and related fields
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| Research Institution | Kyushu Institute of Technology |
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Principal Investigator |
Halimatun Hafid 九州工業大学, 大学院生命体工学研究科, 研究職員 (30847877)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2019-08-30 – 2021-03-31
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| Project Status |
Granted (Fiscal Year 2019)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,730,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥630,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
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| Keywords | Rice fiber / extraction / cellulose nanofiber / environmental friendly / food packaging |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
The development of cellulose nanofiber production from biomass resources using green production method has potentially improve the efficiency of current processes and encloses the safety of the environment as it applied in many areas such as coatings, packaging, and flexible electronics films etc.
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
The research project stated to achieve two main objective which are to obtain cellulose through green methods and production of antimicrobial packaging materials using cellulose obtained from rice husk. In the first objective, cellulose was successfully obtained using combination of green methods of NaOH and weak acid pretreatment and the cellulose obtained was compared with the commercial solvent used which is using chlorinated methods. The cellulose obtained using green methods was smaller particle in size as compared to chlorinated methods and current experiment focus on the production of cellulose sheet for packaging materials.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
The cellulose materials was successfully obtained from the proposed green methods using green acids. The particle size of the cellulose was not suitable for producing cellulose sheet and experiment was still continue to produce the cellulose sheets with satisfactory mechanical properties for packaging purposes using various of solvent.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
After successful obtained the cellulose, the cellulose materials will be converted into cellulose sheets particularly to meet the satisfactory quality of packaging materials in term of mechanical properties. The analysis of tensile, thermal degradation and functional properties of the cellulose sheets will be carried out. The additional antimicrobial properties experiment will be conducted to enhance the quality of the cellulose sheets obtained using gram positive and gram negative bacteria to see the effect of microbial attached on the surface of the cellulose sheet.
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