A cellulose-based light-management film incorporated with benzoxazine resin/tannic acid exhibiting UV/blue light double blocking and enhanced mechanical property

Abstract

Cellulose, as a biomass resource, has attracted increasingly attention and extensive research by virtue of its widely sources, ideal degradability, good mechanical properties and easy modification due to its rich hydroxyl groups. Nevertheless, it is still a challenge to attain high performance cellulose-based composite film materials with diverse functional combinations. In this work, we developed a multifunctional cellulose-based film via a facile impregnation-curing strategy. Here, benzoxazine resin (BR) is used as an optically functional component to endow the microfibrillated cellulose (MFC) film with powerful light management capabilities including UV and blue light double shielding, high transmittance, and high haze. Meanwhile, the introduction of tannic acid (TA) substantially enhanced the mechanical properties of the film, including tensile strength and toughness, by constructing energy-sacrificial bonds. An effective self-healing of the film was achieved by controlling the degree of BR curing. The final films exhibited 98.24 % UV shielding and 89.98 % blue light blocking, good mechanical properties including a tensile strength of 202.21 MPa and tensile strain of 7.1 %, as well as desirable thermal healing properties supported by incompletely cured BR. This work may provide new insights into the high-value utilization of biomass resources.