Abstract
This study addresses the modification and characterization of Conium maculatum fiber to enhance its usability as reinforcement in polymeric composite materials. The fibers were treated with alkali, silane, potassium permanganate, potassium dichromate and silicone oil, then surface chemistry (fourier transform spectroscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy), thermal stability (thermogravimetric analysis) and morpho-structure (X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy) of the fibers were characterized by instrumentally. It was determined that the treatments increased hydrogen bond index and oxygen/carbon atomic ratio of the fibers. Alkali treatment had a positive impact on crystallinity index of the fiber by improving crystallite packing order following partial removal of non-cellulosic agents. The oxidation agents and the silane coupling agent reduced the crystallinity index of the fiber as a result of opening of glucopyranose rings and the increments in the distance between the cellulose macromolecular chains, respectively. Thermal degradation temperatures of the fiber were improved after treatment and the fiber presented rougher surface after treatments that can be an advantage when used as reinforcement to enhance mechanical strength of the final composite.
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Introduction
Requirement for new materials particularly in aerospace, automobile, civil-engineering and manufacturing industries have been globally increased. Scientists continue their efforts to develop new materials with different features, so hybrid materials such as composites have replaced conventional materials because of superior properties and functional performance. Because of increasing awareness and sensitivity to ecologically friendly production and sustainability, bio-renewable sources such as plant fiber have received attention as alternative reinforcements of these composites. Even though they have beneficial properties such as light weight, biodegradability, non-corrosive behavior, non-toxicity, recyclability and ecologically friendly, plant fibers are not compatible with non-polar polymers due to their highly polar character in nature (Indran et al. 2016; Ibrahim et al. 2016). Therefore, weak interfacial adhesion occurs between the fibers and non-polar polymers when used as a reinforcement material. Different approaches have been applied to plant fibers in order to enhance compatibility with polymer matrices by means of improving surface structure.
Considering previous research on surface modifications of plant fibers, it is determined that there are several chemical agents and methods used having different effect mechanisms. Alkali treatment which is commonly carried out for cellulose based fibers to remove waxy substances, natural oils and non-cellulosic components covering the fiber surface (Mwaikambo and Ansell 2002; Cai et al. 2016). This treatment provides cleaner and rougher fiber surface which is ideal for reinforcement fibers (Orue et al. 2015). Silane coupling agents have bifunctional structures which can form chemical bridges between the fiber and the polymer in composite material (Zhou et al. 2014). In many related papers, spectroscopic analyses confirmed the condensation reaction between silane molecules and the cellulose fiber (Rachini et al. 2012). Silane treatment was revealed to change the surface topography, chemical structure and thermal degradation behaviour of the sisal fibers (Zhou et al. 2014). Treatments with silane coupling agents were revealed to increase surface hydrophobicity and to improve interfacial adhesion with the polymers (Girones et al. 2007; Orue et al. 2015). The chemical modification with oxidizing agents is another technique commonly used for cellulosic fibers (Khan et al. 2006; Zaman et al. 2010; Khan et al. 2012, 2014). Oxidation of fibers promotes surface roughness and causes fiber brittleness (Khan et al. 2012). It is also determined that oxidation agents provide more hydrophobic surface and high interfacial adhesion relatively non-polar polymers (Bulut and Aksit 2013). Additionally, another method studied for fiber treatment in terms of decreasing surface polarity includes changing the surface tension and impregnating the fibers (Torres and Cubillas 2005; Spoljaric et al. 2009). Moreover, acetylation (Diharjo et al. 2017), benzoylation (Paul et al. 2008), acrylation (Gurdag et al. 2001), isocyanation (Karmarkar et al. 2007), polymer grafting on surface of the fiber (Bismarck et al. 2002) and also physical methods (Kalia et al. 2013; Kolarova et al. 2013) are studied for treatment of plant fibers.
Accordingly, the objective of this study is to modify the surface character of Conium maculatum fibers in order to enhance interfacial adhesion with relatively non-polar polymers when used as a reinforcement material. In the previous study, structural and morphological properties of Conium maculatum fibers were characterized instrumentally (Kılınç et al. 2018). According to related literature, no information has been given on surface modification of Conium maculatum fibers. On the other hand, although there are plenty studies about surface modifications of natural fibers originated from other plants, there are few studies in which many different surface modifications have been performed comparatively. For this purpose, Conium maculatum fibers were treated with alkali, silane coupling agent, potassium dichromate, potassium permanganate and silicone oil. The efficiency of the surface treatment on Conium maculatum fibers were investigated by Fourier transform infrared (FTIR), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM).
Experimental
Materials
The stems of locally harvested Conium maculatum plants from Bahadırlı village (Canakkale-TURKEY) were separated from branches and foliages. Prior to the retting process, the stems were severally washed with distilled water to remove impurities. The Conium maculatum fibers were extracted by the conventional water retting process. The extraction procedure was explained in details elsewhere (Kılınç et al. 2018). For surface treatment of the fibers, silicone oil, potassium dichromate, potassium permanganate and alkali were purchased from Merck Corp (USA). Tetraethoxysilane (C8H20O4Si) was provided from Setas Kimya, Turkey.
Fiber treatment
Silane treatment
Prior to fiber treatment, tetraethoxysilane was hydrolyzed in 50/50% v/v ethanol/water solution with the addition of acetic acid to adjust pH 4.5–5 by continuously stirring for 1 h at ambient temperature. Then, Conium maculatum fibers were added into 5% w/w hydrolyzed silane solution and kept mechanical stirring for 3 h to ensure the adsorption of the silane onto the fibers. Afterwards, the fibers were rinsed with distilled water several times to remove chemical residues. Then, the fibers were dried for 3 days at ambient temperature and then oven-dried at 80 °C (Gharbi et al. 2014; Erdogan et al. 2016).
Silicone oil treatment
Conium maculatum fibers were modified with 1% v/v silicone oil in ethanol solution at 20 °C for 30 min. Then, the fibers were oven-dried at 80 °C (Spoljaric et al. 2009).
Potassium permanganate treatment
Conium maculatum fibers were treated with 0.02% potassium permanganate aqueous solution for 30 min at room temperature. The fibers were rinsed with distilled water several times to remove chemical residues. Afterwards, the fibers were oven-dried at 100 °C and kept in a dessicator (Bulut and Aksit 2013).
Potassium dichromate treatment
Conium maculatum fibers were treated with 2.0% potassium dichromate aqueous solution for 30 min at room temperature. The fibers were rinsed with distilled water several times to remove chemical residues. Afterwards, the fibers were oven-dried at 100 °C and kept in a dessicator.
Alkali treatment
The treatment was carried out by dipping the Conium maculatum fibers in 5% w/v sodium hydroxide aqueous solution for 30 min at ambient temperature. Then, treated fibers were washed rinsed with distilled water with a drop of acetic acid in order to neutralize. The washed fibers were oven-dried at 80 °C (Sgriccia et al. 2008; Sinha and Rout 2009).
Characterization of the untreated and treated Conium maculatum fibers
FTIR analysis
FTIR spectra of the untreated and treated Conium maculatum fibers were obtained using a Fourier Transform Infrared spectrometer (Perkin Elmer Spectrum BX, USA). Each spectrum was recorded in the range of 600–4000 cm−1 with a resolution of 2 cm−1. Spectra of the samples were obtained from 25 scans.
XPS analysis
Surface chemistry of the Conium maculatum fibers was analyzed through X-ray photo electron spectroscopy (XPS, ThermoScientific, USA) with monochromatic Al-Kα (1486.7 eV) X-ray source and a beam size of 400 nm diameter. The vacuum pressure was below 10–9 Torr during spectra data acquisition. The XPS data were acquired between 1350 and 10 eV applying energy of 150 eV and a resolution of 1 eV. 20 scans from a single point were recorded. Sample surface were sputtered with ionic Ar gas before operation.
XRD analysis
To investigate the effects of the surface treatments on fine structure Conium maculatum fibers, X-ray diffraction analysis was carried out by using Rigaku ULTIMA 3 (Japan)—Rint 2200/PC system with Cu-Kα radiation (λ-Kα1 = 1.54 Å) and processed by MDI-Jade 7 software. Prior to analysis, the fibers were powdered in order to use in XRD stage and the measurement was recorded in 3°–60° range at 40 kV and 36 mA with a scan speed of 2°/min. To determine the crystallinity index of the Conium maculatum fibers, the empirical formula was used (Segal et al. 1959) (Eq. 1).
where I200 is the peak at maximum intensity at 2θ angle between 22° and 23° that represents the (200) lattice which is attributed to both crystalline and amorphous diffraction. Iam is the intensity of diffraction of the amorphous material, which is located at a 2θ angle between 18° and 19° where the intensity is at a minimum (Seki et al. 2013).
TGA analysis
The effect of modification on thermal stability of Conium maculatum fibers was determined by thermogravimetric analysis. Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) was performed by Perkin Elmer STA 8000 (USA) TG/DTA by heating from room temperature to 700 °C by a heating rate of 10 °C/min under N2 atmosphere to avoid oxidation effects.
SEM analysis
Longitudinal sections of untreated and treated Conium maculatum fibers were examined by JEOL-JM 6060 (Japan) model scanning electron microscope (SEM) to characterize surface morphologies. Accelerating voltage and the spot size were set to 5 kV and 40, respectively. In order to prevent electron beam charging effect, the surfaces of the fibers were coated with Au–Pd for 150 s by sputter coating.
Results and discussion
FTIR analysis
The IR spectra of untreated and treated Conium maculatum fibers are depicted in Fig. 1 from 4000 to 600 cm−1 and Table 1 lists the position of peak and its nature of bands of FTIR spectra. The spectra peaks of 3346–3331 cm−1 correspond to O–H stretching and hydrogen bonds (Paiva et al. 2007). The intensity of the peak reduced after alkali treatment. In other words, the alcohol groups in cellulose structure get reduced with the alkali treatment (Sudha and Thilagavathi 2015). This may be due to partial removal of the fatty acids which include hydroxyl groups that are involved in hydrogen bonding with the carboxyl groups (Mwaikambo and Ansell 2002). However, the other treatments increased the intensity of this peak. The increase in the intensity of this band after silane and silicone oil treatments may be due to the grafting of silane and silicone oil onto cellulose and the intermolecular condensation between adjacent adsorbed –Si–OH groups (Abdelmouleh et al. 2004). Oxidative treatments with potassium dichromate and potassium permanganate increased the intensity of this peak possibly because of partial removal of non-cellulosic components resulting increasing number of –OH groups (Das and Chakraborty 2006). The peaks observed between 2920 and 2700 cm−1 were related to the C–H stretching vibration of alkyl groups in aliphatic bonds of cellulose, lignin and hemicelluloses (Orue et al. 2015). After treatment procedures, the intensity of this peak slightly increased. The peak observed at 1239 cm−1 indicating C–O stretching vibration of acetyl group in hemicelluloses showed diminishing intensity and further the peak 1734 cm−1 corresponds to carbonyl groups related to hemicellulose disappeared after alkali treatment (Rajkumar et al. 2016; Erdogan et al. 2016). Potassium permanganate and potassium dichromate treatments increased the intensity of the peak indicating the carbonyl groups probably due to the oxidation affect (Bulut and Aksit 2013). The O–H bending of water absorbed into cellulose fiber structure was located at 1617 cm−1. The peak centered at 1507 cm−1 corresponds to C–C in plane symmetrical stretching vibration of aromatic rings present in lignin (Orue et al. 2015). The small peak at 1157–1160 cm−1 can be attributed to C–O–C asymmetric stretching (Sharma et al. 2015). The absorption band at 1034 cm−1 may be attributed to cyclic alcohol groups (Seki 2009). After alkali treatment, this band presented diminishing intensity whereas silane and oxidation treatment increased this band noticeably. However, after silicone-oil treatment, the major absorption peak obtained at 1019 cm−1 corresponds to Si–O–Si stretching vibrations (Spoljaric et al. 2009). Further, new peaks at 1259 (Si–O) and 798 (Si–C) cm−1 and also shoulders at 2964 (Si–O) and 865 (Si–O–Si) cm−1 absorption bands were introduced in the spectrum of silicone-oil treated Conium maculatum fibers (Matrajit et al. 2005; Jahagirdar and Tiwari 2004). These peaks can confirm formation of a polysiloxane layer on the fiber surface (Spoljaric et al. 2009).
An infrared ratio, which can also calculated from FTIR, shows hydrogen bond intensity (HBI). HBI can be calculated by the ratio of the absorption intensities of 3308 (OH stretching) and 1330 cm−1 (ring breathing with C–O stretching) (Carrillo et al. 2004; Oh et al. 2005; Chen et al. 2014). HBI values of the untreated and treated Conium maculatum fibers are given in Table 2. Considering the chain mobility and bond distance, the hydrogen-bond intensity (HBI) of cellulose is closely related to the crystal system and the degree of intermolecular regularity, that is, crystallinity, as well as the amount of bound water (Oh et al., 2005). Therefore, the crystallinity index results which are given in Table 4 are in accordance with HBI values of the untreated and treated Conium maculatum fibers. All treatments performed in this study increased HBI value of the untreated Conium maculatum fibers by in the range of 7–20%.
XPS analysis
Table 3 lists the surface composition and C/O ratios of the untreated and treated Conium maculatum fibers based on XPS analysis. Figure 2 shows C1s peaks of the untreated Conium maculatum fiber. C1s peaks of the treated Conium maculatum fibers are presented in Fig. 3. As obtained from Table 3, C content slightly increased whereas O content of the untreated fiber increased by 58.3% after alkali treatment. Lignin which is one of the main components of cellulose based fibers, is partially soluble in alkali solution. Further, hemicellulose is also alkali-soluble due to its water soluble various constituents. Therefore, partial solubility of lignin and hemicellulose resulted in an increase in O/C atomic ratio of the fibers (Liu et al. 2004). The oxidation effect of potassium dichromate and potassium permanganate treatments increased O content of the fiber by 30.5 and 46.4%, respectively (Xu and Chung 2001). Silane treatment also increased oxygen content of the fibers. This is probably due to chemical structure of the tetraethoxysilane.
Apart from the other treatments, carbon content of the Conium maculatum fiber dramatically decreased due to the transfer of silicone atoms on the surface of the fiber. It is determined that silicone oil was well applied due to 22% content of Si atoms examined on surface of the fiber. In case of O/C atomic ratios summarized in Table 3, all treatments increased O/C ratio of Conium maculatum fiber. It is determined that all treatments improved surface polarity of Conium maculatum fibers which can enhance interfacial adhesion with more polar polymers due to the polar–polar interaction in comparison with polypropylene and polyethylene when used as a reinforcement in composite materials (Kodama et al., 1988). It is clearly seen that great proportions for the Conium maculatum fibers belong to C–C groups. After treatments, the chemical bonds remain almost similar but their intensity changes. After silane and oxidation treatments, O–C=O bonds were introduced on Conium maculatum fibers. It is also determined that C–O–C bonds were appeared on Conium maculatum fibers after silane, alkali and potassium permanganate treatments.
XRD analysis
Crystallinity parameters of the untreated and treated Conium maculatum fibers are listed in Table 4. XRD curves of Conium maculatum fibers are depicted in Fig. 4. The diffraction peaks at 2θ = 22°–23° (200) and 2θ = 16°–17° (110) indicate the typical diffractions of cellulose I (Seki et al. 2013). However, a new diffraction peak at 12.28 2θ angles is introduced after silicone oil treatment. Therefore, it is possible to reveal that silicone oil treatment not only decreased crystallinity index of the fibers but also changed the structure. XRD results show that an increase in the crystallinity index was obtained after alkali treatment which can indicate improvement in the order of the crystallites (Mwaikambo and Ansell 2002). The crystallite packing order may be enhanced by partial removal of hemicellulose and non-cellulosic components via alkali treatment (Erdogan et al. 2016). The crystallinity of the fiber decreased after silane treatment by 3.1%. This may be due to the introduction of the silane coupling agent to the cellulose macromolecular chains. The size of aminosilane molecules is bigger than that of –OH groups, which means the distance between the cellulose macromolecular chains increased after modification (Sheltami et al. 2015). Potassium permanganate and potassium dichromate treatments decreased crystallinity index of the untreated Conium maculatum fiber from 66.8 to 65.5% and 61.7%, respectively. The loss of crystallinity is considered to be possibly resulting from opening of glucopyranose rings and destruction of their ordered packing due to oxidation effect (Kim et al. 2000).
TGA analysis
Figure 5 shows the TG/DTG curves of the untreated Conium maculatum fibers. Thermogravimetric curves (TG and DTG) of the untreated and treated Conium maculatum fibers are shown in Figs. 6 and 7, respectively. The calorimetric results are listed in Table 5.
Except for the alkali treatment, the fibers were degraded in two main stages (~ 260 and 400 °C) following water vaporization which takes place between 30 and 130 °C (Melo et al. 2012). The weight loss between ~ 260 and 300 °C is related to thermal depolymerization of hemicellulose with different weight loses of PdF (21.96%), PpF (26.86%), SiF (27.69%) and ScF (27.34%). The peaks at 336, 337.6, 343.02, 364.05, 360.25 and 361.46 °C indicate the decomposition of cellulose (Fiore et al. 2011) corresponding weight loses of F (57.83%), AF (49.51%), PdF (56.03%), PpF (65.89%), SiF (64.44%) and ScF (58.28%), respectively. In general, the lignin decomposes in the whole temperature range (Seki et al. 2016). It was observed that the alkali treated fibers degraded in the range of 300 and 600 °C with a single decomposition stage. This is due to the removal of hemicellulose content of the fiber. Also removal of hemicellulose content shifted the initial decomposition temperature of the fiber to higher degree (Liu et al. 2004). According to the related literature, silane treatment can enhance the thermal stability of the cellulose based fibers (Joseph et al. 2008; Eng et al. 2014; Khoathane et al. 2015; Marosi et al. 2016). Silane treatment enhanced both initial and maximum decomposition temperature of the fiber. This may be due to the formation of siloxane layer on fiber surface through the silane bridges between silanol groups of the coupling agent and the hydroxyl groups of the cellulose fiber (Li et al. 2007). These results showed that treatments retained or improved the thermal stability of fibers by improving structural order and reducing amorphous content (Melo et al. 2012).
SEM analysis
Longitudinal views of the untreated and treated Conium maculatum fibers are displayed in Fig. 8. As can be seen from Fig. 8a, b, untreated Conium maculatum fibers have a multicellular structure which longitudinally arranges with a few small pit and holes. There are also impurities on the surface of the fibers.
It is observed that the surface morphology of the untreated fiber changes obviously as a result of the treatments. Primarily, the least change was noticed on the fiber surface after potassium permanganate treatment (Fig. 8c, d). As a result of this treatment, it is noted that the fiber surface is cleaned from the impurities and the small ridges are seen on the fiber surface. After silane treatment, microfibers started to emerge with the gradual decay of the weak structure that holds together the fiber bundle (Fig. 8e, f). This interaction increases the surface roughness of the fiber. It can be a benefit because rougher fiber surface enhance mechanical properties of composite materials by interlocking between fiber surface and resin interface (Sudha and Thilagavathi 2015). However, the greatest increase in roughness is achieved on the alkali treated fiber surface (Fig. 8g, h). The main reason for fibrillation is removal of hemicelluloses and lignin which are cement of the fiber body (Sudha and Thilagavathi 2015). As a result of the emerging of many fibrils on the fiber surface, the increased surface roughness can be easily detected. After silicone oil treatment, the appearance of the fiber surface is brighter, indicating that the surface is covered with the silicone oil layer (Fig. 8i, j). In addition, there are remained particles on the surface of the fiber after the related treatment. After potassium dichromate treatment, a quite different characteristic effect is observed from other treatments. As can be seen from Fig. 8k, l, the holes and pits on the fiber surface have been excessively increased. The reason for the pit and holes on the fiber surface could be the interaction of the potassium dichromate ions with the lignin components (Benyahia et al. 2016).
Conclusion
Conium maculatum fibers, alternative cellulose based fibers for polymeric composites, were treated with alkali, silane, potassium dichromate, potassium permanganate, silicone oil. All of the treatments increased HBI and O/C values of the Conium maculatum fibers, but the highest increments were achieved after alkali treatment due to the partial removal of lignin and hemicelluloses. Crystallinity index of the fiber increased via alkali treatment due to the enhancement in the crystallite packing by partial removal of non-cellulosic components. In contrast, silicone oil treatment did not exert a strong influence on the crystallinity index of the fiber. This may be due to the surface modification effect of silicone oil. Significant improvements in thermal degradation temperatures were observed particularly with silane and potassium permanganate treatments. The treatments alter the surface morphology of the Conium maculatum fibers noticeably. The treatments increased surface roughness of the fiber which can be a benefit in improving mechanical performance of the composites when used as reinforcement materials. Besides, the fiber is covered with a layer after silicone oil treatment.
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Seki, Y., Kılınç, A.Ç., Dalmis, R. et al. Surface modification of new cellulose fiber extracted from Conium maculatum plant: a comparative study. Cellulose 25, 3267–3280 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-018-1797-0
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