Fabrication of modified lignin-based liquid mulching film and its potential application

Zhonghua Sun; Jie Liang; Menghua Qin; Ruxia Ning; Xin Liu; Wei Sun; Xiang Li

doi:10.1515/npprj-2023-0071

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Fabrication of modified lignin-based liquid mulching film and its potential application

Zhonghua Sun , Jie Liang , Menghua Qin , Ruxia Ning , Xin Liu , Wei Sun and Xiang Li

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Abstract

Liquid mulching film is an emerging film material to replace the traditional plastic film, which causes wide public concern. In this study, a graft copolymer (LS-AA) was synthesized from sodium lignosulfonate (LS) by free radical polymerization, which was added as enhancer to the cationic starch (CS) solutions to obtain the CLA based film. The grafting conditions was optimized by response surface methodology (RSM) for the preparation of LS-AA, after that the LS-AA was characterized by FTIR, XRD, and TG. The highest grafting rate was obtained under the reaction conditions of 80 °C for 2.6 h with the mass ratio of monomer and LS of 5.5/5 at initiator dosage of 1 %. The fabricated liquid mulching film with addition of LS-AA showed outstanding anti-ultraviolet, biodegradation, anti-erosion, which provided theoretical base and practical references for popularizing and application of liquid mulching film in the dust prevention and sand fixation.

Keywords: dust prevention; graft copolymer; liquid mulching film; sand fixation; sodium lignosulfonate

Corresponding author: Jie Liang, Institute of Chemical Industry of Forest Products, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Nanjing 210018, China, E-mail: liang_jie0112@163.com

Zhonghua Sun and Jie Liang contributed equally to this work.

Funding source: Shandong Provincial Key Research & Development Project

Award Identifier / Grant number: 2019GSF109110

Funding source: Research Starting Funds for Imported Talents

Award Identifier / Grant number: Y-01-2021023

Acknowledgments

The authors are grateful for the support of the Shandong Provincial Key Research & Development Project, China (Grant No. 2019GSF109110) and Research Starting Funds for Imported Talents, Taishan University, China (Grant No. Y-01-2021023).

Research ethics: Not applicable.
Author contributions: Zhonghua Sun: conceptualization, validation, investigation, supervision, funding acquisition. Jie Liang: conceptualization, methodology, investigation, writing-original draft, writing-review and editing. Menghua Qin: methodology, investigation, data curation. Ruxia Ning: formal analysis, visualization, investigation. Xin Liu: data curation, methodology, investigation. Wei Sun: conceptualization, investigation. Xiang Li: conceptualization, methodology, investigation.
Competing interests: The authors state no conflict of interest.
Research funding: Shandong Provincial Key Research & Development Project, Grant number 2019GSF109110, Research Starting Funds for Imported Talents, Grant number Y-01-2021023.
Data availability: Data will be made available on request.

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Received: 2023-10-31

Accepted: 2024-03-12

Published Online: 2024-04-03

Published in Print: 2024-06-25

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