TY - JOUR A1 - Bücker, Michael A1 - Jäger, Christian A1 - Pfeifer, Dietmar A1 - Unger, Brita T1 - Evidence of Si-O-C bonds in cellulosic materials modified by sol-gel-derived silica JF - Wood science and technology N2 - The present study contributes to the controversial discussion in the literature whether Si–O–C bonds in wood–silica–gel composites exist. 13C NMR is a suitable method to proof such bonds. Because of the low concentration of 13C isotopes in natural wood, 13C cellulose was used as 13C-enriched substitute. A tailored sol for the impregnation of that cellulose was chosen by liquid 29Si NMR pre-investigations of various sols whose reactivity and stability were time-dependently analysed. It is based on a sub-stoichiometric hydrolysis of tetraethoxysilane (TEOS) with 1 mol water per mol TEOS. Thermal analyses were performed to show a comparability of the thermal behaviour of wood–silica–gel and cellulose–silica–gel composites. There are two strong hints of the existence of stable Si–O–C bonds: (1) by thermal analysis, a shift in the fire behaviour of 100 K can be observed with a change in pyrolysis behaviour of the composite and (2) the proof by REDOR NMR that a dipolar coupling between 1329Si and 13C nuclei exists. KW - Silica-cellulosic composites KW - Sol-gel derived silica KW - Si-O-C bonds KW - 13C NMR KW - 29Si NMR PY - 2014 UR - http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00226-014-0657-9/fulltext.html DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00226-014-0657-9 SN - 0043-7719 SN - 1432-5225 VL - 48 IS - 5 SP - 1033 EP - 1047 PB - Springer CY - Berlin AN - OPUS4-31223 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -