Adhesion to wet cellulose – Comparing adhesive layer-by-layer assembly to coating polyelectrolyte complex suspensions 2nd ICC 2007, Tokyo, Japan, October 25–29, 2007

Abstract Polyelectrolyte complexes are routinely used as adhesives to strengthen fiber-fiber contacts in paper. This work evaluates different approaches to putting the polyelectrolyte complexes into the adhesive joint. Instead of conventional wet paper mechanical testing, a wet cellulose film delamination technique was employed permitting direct comparison of different approaches to applying the polymeric adhesive to the …