Improving Adhesive Properties of Cellulose Nanocrystals Modifying By 3-Glycidoxypropyltrimethoxy Silane (KH-560) Coupling Agents

Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) is one of the outstanding nanomaterial. So far, much researcher nowadays has been developed their properties. These properties make CNCs a promising resource to replace fossil resources for the production of industrial materials and chemicals. Here, we firstly modified cellulose nanocrystals with 3-Glycidoxypropyltrimethoxy (KH-560) silane coupling agent. Chemical composition and surface morphologies of cellulose nanocrystals were analyzed and characterized by FT-IR, and SEM. The result indicated that polar hydroxyl groups were successfully introduced on the cellulose nanocrystals surface. The SEM results confirmed silane coupling agent was successfully grafted on cellulose nanocrystals. Modified CNCs demonstrated an excellent tensile strength and modulus exhibited by 1wt% modified cellulose nanocrystals composites. This novel procedure improves the dispersion of cellulose nanocrystals by modification and at the same time enhance the interfacial adhesion. Result shows increases more over than the native cellulose nanocrystals by modifying CNCs with KH-560 coupling agent. This study lays a foundation towards full polymers fabrication and consumptions most desirable in adhesive and mechanical industrial fields. Improving Adhesive Properties of Cellulose Nanocrystals Modifying By 3-Glycidoxypropyltrimethoxy Silane (KH-560) Coupling Agents. Biomed J Sci & Tech Res 34(1)-2021. BJSTR. MS.ID.005492. of the surface modification method. The surface modification has been confirmed through different techniques. Modified CNCs have obvious enhancement effect with 1 wt% and 3 wt% on tensile strength, but addition of 5 wt% caused agglomeration in the epoxy medium. The effects of KH-560 on the adhesive and mechanical properties with epoxy systems indicated effectively, improve the toughness of the epoxy system.


Introduction
Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) obtained from natural bio resources building blocks for the design of new biomaterials in nanotechnology [1]. Their widths varying from 5 to 20 nm and lengths from 100 nm to 1-2 µm [2]. Cellulose nanocrystals used for several years both in modified and unmodified form for the development and products which is useful for our society [3,4]. CNCs extracted from abundant cellulose nanofillers that is sustainable, biodegradable and has excellent strength-to-weight ratio used as reinforcing for epoxy composites [5]. Recently it has been shown that cellulose nanocrystals a sustainable bio sourced material, DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2021. 34.005492 could serve as a valuable colloidal stabilizer [6,7]. It attracted a dynamic attention in developing lightweight and high performance nano composite due to their excellent mechanical performance, biodegradable and renewable abilities [8,9]. Cellulose nanocrystals materials are widely used due to their unusual properties, such as high specific surface area, static mechanical properties, fatigue resistance and permeability [10,11]. In several studies' CNCs have been incorporated into polymer matrices as a reinforcing agent, due to hydrophilic characterization low or higher molecular weight molecules has been attempted to achieve good dispersion and adhesion in the non-polar matrices [12,13]. Cellulose nanocrystals is favorable reinforcing material for production of bio-based composite material because of its high strength and stiffness [14,15].
Also, cellulose nanocrystals are bio sourced safe nanomaterials of great research interest in both academic and industrial sectors. Their unique properties and future commercialization prospects have recently led potentially industrial production [16,17]. Nowadays epoxy resin are largely used in our daily life, like adhesives, adhesion between different matrix, excellent performance in mechanical properties [18,19]. It is used for making advanced types of composites such as coating in electric applications because of the versatility in curing, high excellent modulus, low shrinkage and high tunable [20,21]. Epoxy resin, most commonly thermosetting materials especially in the fiber manufacturing materials due to their excellent thermal and chemical resistance [22,23]. However, relatively high content of hydroxyl group after cured, epoxy resin perform high surface energy which compel their application in some areas such as anti-fouling coating [24].
Among organic coating, epoxy resin are used on large quantity in protective coating due to their excellent properties like ease of cure, high temperature performance [25,26]. Epoxy resin system is also used in high voltages transformers, power apparatus and cable terminations. Surface modification of fillers or crystals having coreshell structures in polymers can greatly enhance the performances such as electrical and thermal conductivity. Much efforts has been carried out to develop new insulating materials and related fabrication method for enhancing performance [27,28].
Epoxy resin can be used in preparation of organic-inorganic hybrids with potential applications in coating and composite industries because of their excellent mechanical properties [29]. It is the best choice used for anti-corrosion and corrosion resistance.
They become a favored choice for long term, cost effective in various industrial applications [30,31]. The purpose of this study is to prepare new modified cellulose nanocrystals CNCs with

Materials and Methods
Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) were obtained from Science K Co. Ltd. Wzhangzhen China. There average length is 10-250 nm and average diameter with 7.5 nm. CNCs was firstly dried at 80°C for 8 h in Then stirred for the next 150 min at natural temperature. After that, the product was put into the centrifugation sample for washing two times by ethanol absolute (96% purity) and one time with distilled water. One round was 10 min at 5000 rpm in centrifugation (Shanghai Anting scientific instrument factory) to remove any excess of silane from the cellulose nanocrystals. After washing the product in the centrifugation put it into hot air oven for 4-5 h to remove the impurities, maintains the temperature at 100°C. The powder again put into the vacuumed oven with 80°C for the next 4-6 h to remove the remaining impurities and then subsequently preserved in sample glass bottle from moisture for further use.

Samples Preparation
A simulating industrial setup for steel plates was designed from Hangzhou iron and steel group Co. Ltd. The steel plates were polished and was dried at room temperature and subsequently preserved in plastic bags from moisture for further use. According to test methods for adhesive properties of MCNCs embedded with coated steel plates was polish molded into 3 standard testing. E-51 (DGEBA) epoxy resin 1 g and MCNCs with 1%, 3% and 5% was taken in the sample glass bottle and sonication at natural temperature for 1 h and then stirred at room temperature for the next 2 h. After that, 0.2 g of triethylenetetramine (TETA) added drop by drop and slowly stirred for the next 10-15 min for complete curing. Then place it in vacuumed oven for 15-20 min maintain the temperature up-to 45°C to remove the air bubbles from the solution, after that the complete mixture was poured by glass rod on steel plates with the length of 1.5 cm and width 2.3 cm into three different molds for curing. Curing process was carried out in an oven at 120°C for 1 h. After that, the samples were cooled down naturally to room temperature. These standard testing steel plates were placed at room temperature for 3-4 days before testing.

Characterizations
The structure of E-51 epoxy resin, both silane coupling agent

Coupling Agent
The different functional groups present in neat cellulose nanocrystals (NCNCs) and MCNCs were studied by FTIR. The typical FTIR spectra of NCNCs and MCNCs is shown in Figure 1. Neat CNCs showed a strong peak appeared at 1750 cm -1 was ascribed to the C=C group stretching vibration of the ester and carboxylic group present in MCNCs [32,33]. The appearance of this peak confirmed the successful synthesis of the MCNCs.

Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)
The Scanning electron microscope (SEM) images were obtained on field emission scanning electron microscope (SU-

Adhesive Properties of Modified Cellulose Nanocrystals
Here, we have also evaluated the adhesives strength of neat and modified CNCs, because they have an assured tensile modulus, strength and elongation at break. The average adhesive strength is mentioned in Figure-03. (A-B), using KH-560 silane coupling agent with the CNCs content, while triethylenetetramine (TETA) used as a curing agent. The epoxy resins containing neat and modified CNCs at 1, 3 and 5 weight percent (wt%) to evaluate the effect of enhancement potential. With the introduction of tensile modulus and strength at maximum load using steel plates. Modified CNCs has an obvious enhancement effect with 1 wt% and 3 wt% and 5 wt% on tensile modulus, but for tensile strength after adding 3% started agglomeration in the epoxy medium [35,36]. The maximum value observed for nanocomposites reinforced with all the samples [37]. The tensile data shows that all the modified CNCs samples   The elongation break corresponds to the percentage of expansion of the initial span of the modified CNCs samples [38,39].

Elongation at Break
The duration of the interval corresponds to the percentage growth of the modified cellulose nanocrystals. In Figure 3. (C), all samples sizes improved permanently compared to the standard sample.
A moderate upward trend was observed, which improved the dispersion of the modified CNCs in the epoxy system. Responsible for the differences in the inherent characteristics of the modified CNCs. Cellulose nanocrystals are generally considered strong, hard and fragile. The distribution of modified CNCs is good, resulting in nanomaterials of different length [40][41][42].

Statement
We have no conflict of interest.