Chemical Functionalization and Characterization of Cellulose Extracted from Wheat Straw Using Acid Hydrolysis Methodologies

Table 4

The crystallinity indices for the neat nitric and sulfuric acid extracted samples and their Albright-Goldman oxidized counterparts.

Characterization technique	Nitric acid	Albright-Goldman (nitric acid)	Sulfuric acid	Albright-Goldman (sulfuric acid)
FTIR	43.61% ± 0.01	98.57% ± 0.01	29.76% ± 0.03	59.43% ± 1.11
XRD	71.88% ± 4.19	92.52% ± 2.26	70.58% ± 1.18	69.65% ± 5.39