Amine-decorated nanocrystalline cellulose surfaces: synthesis, characterization, and surface properties
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In this present work, terminal amino-functionalized nanocrystalline cellulose derivatives were prepared using a simple two-step protecting group-free protocol under aqueous reaction conditions at room temperature. Carboxylate groups were first introduced onto the surface of nanocrystalline cellulose (NCC) via a TEMPO-mediated oxidation. Then, reaction of surface-carboxylated NCC with bifunctional amines of small alkyl chain length by EDC/NHS-mediated coupling furnished the desired aminated NCC via an amide linkage. Surface covalent functionalization was confirmed by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, elemental analysis, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Size, surface charge, morphology, and thermal properties were obtained by various techniques. STEM images revealed no change in structure and morphology of the materials after TEMPO-mediated oxidation but a slight agglomeration was observed after surface covalent functionalization with diamines. While amide linkage confers stability, terminal primary amine groups on the surface of NCC represent a versatile reactive functional group for bioconjugation with other biomolecules for potential biomedical applications.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".