title: Mechanoanions produced by mechanical fracture of bacterial cellulose: ionic nature of glycosidic linkage and electrostatic charging.
abstract: Mechanoanions were produced by heterogeneous scission of the glycosidic linkages of the main chain of bacterial cellulose (BC); scission was induced by mechanical fracture of the BC in a vacuum in the dark at 77 K. The mechanoanions were detected using electron-spin-trapping methods with tetracyanoethylene. The yield of mechanoanions was positively correlated with the absolute value of the change in the Mulliken atomic charge, which was used as a descriptor of the ionic nature of the glycosidic linkage. Homogeneous scission of the glycosidic linkages induced by mechanical fracture generated mechanoradicals, the electron affinity of which was estimated on the basis of the energy of the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital for the model structure of the mechanoradical. It was concluded that the electrostatic charging of BC is caused by electron transfer from mechanoanions to mechanoradicals, which have high electron affinities. The electrostatic charge density of BC in a vacuum in the dark at 77 K was estimated to be 6.00 × 10(-1) C/g.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Shizuoka, 52-1 Yada, Shizuoka 422-8526, Japan. sakaguchi@u-shizuoka-ken.ac.jp
authors.forename: Masato
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sakaguchi
authors.forename: Masakazu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Makino
authors.forename: Takeshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ohura
authors.forename: Tadahisa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Iwata
mesh_terms: D002482:Cellulose / Q000737:chemistry*; D041822:Gluconacetobacter xylinus / Q000737:chemistry*; D006027:Glycosides / Q000737:chemistry*; D007477:Ions / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D055672:Static Electricity
chemical_list: D006027:Glycosides; D007477:Ions; D002482:Cellulose