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  • Title: Super-swelling lignin-based biopolymer hydrogels for soil water retention from paper industry waste.
    Author: Meng Y, Liu X, Li C, Liu H, Cheng Y, Lu J, Zhang K, Wang H.
    Journal: Int J Biol Macromol; 2019 Aug 15; 135():815-820. PubMed ID: 31145959.
    Abstract:
    Sources of pulping red liquor, which is produced by acidic sulfite cooking in paper industry, consisted of lignosulphonate and polysaccharide, commonly considered as waste or byproducts and used in low value, such as surfactant and adhesive are wide and its price is low. Here a novel method for high value-added utilization of the pulp and paper industry waste for fabricating super-swelling biopolymer hydrogels is introduced. In contrast to other costly utilizations, which are needed to separate red liquor or purify hemicellulose and lignin before using, it is first time to directly utilize red liquor to prepare hydrogels without pretreatment. FT-IR, SEM, TGA and XRD are used to determine structure and morphology of hydrogels. It is excited the hydrogels fabricated from acrylic (AA) and industry waste exhibit super-swelling and slow release behaviors in water. Compared with synthetic materials, the hydrogels are at low price to be chosen as candidates for water retention agent for agriculture.
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