Equipe Physico-Chimie des Polymères / Polymer Chemical Physics Team Diffusion coefficients of NaOH and NMMO during regeneration of Avicel/8%NaOH/water gels and Solucell/NMMO solutions in a water bath of 25°C. Cellulose concentration, wt% 0 3 5 6 7 DNaOH, × 10-10 m2/s 15.1a) 2.09 1.42 1.21 1.10 Cellulose 0 concentration, wt% 0.3 DNMMO, × 10- 7.04b) 1.42 10 m2/s 1.1 2.3 3 6c) 8c) 10c) 12c) 1.31 1.20 1.25 1.10 0.98 0.81 0.50 a) Taken from: Handbook of Tables for Applied Engineering Science, 2nd ed.; CRC, Press: Boca Raton, FL, 1983. b) Calculated from the size of NMMO, using Stoke-Einstein formula. c) Taken from: Biganska, O.; Navard, P. Biomacromolecules 2005, 6, 1948. R.GAVILLON, T.BUDTOVA « Kinetics of cellulose regeneration from cellulose-NaOH-water gels and comparison with cellulose-NMMOwater solutions », Biomacromolecules, 8, 424-432 (2007). R.GAVILLON. PhD thesis. Ecole des Mines de Paris, Sophia-Antipolis, France, 2007. CEMEF – Mines ParisTech http://www.cemef.mines-paristech.fr/ ©