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Recyclable oil resistant paper with enhanced water resistance based on alkyl ketene dimer modified sodium alginate

  • Liyan Ma , Shuai Liu , Jiahui Shi , Rina Wu ORCID logo EMAIL logo and Peng Lu EMAIL logo

Abstract

Sustainable coatings exhibit potential in enhancing oil resistance of packaging paper. Alkyl ketone dimer (AKD) was used to esterify sodium alginate (SA) to prepare water and oil resistant agent SAD. As SAD was coated on paper, it reduced the surface energy and blocked the fiber pores of paper, thus improving the barrier performance of paper. The oil resistance grade can reach grade 6 at coating amount of 2.13 ± 0.26 g/m2, which is qualified for food packaging. The coated paper also showed good barrier to hot castor oil. Resistance to organic solvent and water were also enhanced with initial water contact angle (WCA) increased to 69.2°. Compared with base paper, SAD coated paper had better mechanical properties and more importantly, coated paper can be effectively recycled to achieve green recycling.


Corresponding authors: Rina Wu, State Key Laboratory of Biobased Fiber Manufacturing Technology, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Pulp & Paper, China Light Industry Key Laboratory of Papermaking and Biorefinery, School of light industry science and engineering, Tianjin University of Science & Technology, Tianjin 300457, China; and Guangxi Key Laboratory of Clean Pulp & Papermaking and Pollution Control, School of Light Industry and Food Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China, E-mail: ; and Peng Lu, Guangxi Key Laboratory of Clean Pulp & Papermaking and Pollution Control, School of Light Industry and Food Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China, E-mail:

Funding source: Opening Project of Guangxi Key Laboratory of Clean Pulp & Papermaking and Pollution Control

Award Identifier / Grant number: 2019KF17

  1. Research funding: The authors are grateful to the Opening Project of Guangxi Key Laboratory of Clean Pulp & Papermaking and Pollution Control (2019KF17), Nanning 530004, PR China for financial support.

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Received: 2023-08-10
Accepted: 2023-10-08
Published Online: 2023-10-26
Published in Print: 2023-12-15

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