Cellulose materials and methods of making the cellulose materials are described herein. The method can include contacting a cotton fabric with an oxidizing system to obtain an oxidized cotton material and processing the oxidized cotton material to form the cellulose material. The oxidizing system can include an aqueous mixture of a N-oxyl compound and a hypochlorite compound. During oxidation, the p11 of the aqueous mixture can be maintained at from 8.5 to 11. Cellulose products can be formed from the cellulose materials. For example, the cellulose products can be used to form a packaging material, a biomedical device or implant, a drug delivery material, a fiber, a textile material, a template for electronic components, or a separation membrane. Methods of making the cellulose product include dissolving or suspending an active ingredient in a medium comprising the cellulose material.

Cellulose materials and methods of making the cellulose materials are described herein. The method can include contacting a cotton fabric with an oxidizing system to obtain an oxidized cotton material and processing the oxidized cotton material to form the cellulose material. The oxidizing system can include an aqueous mixture of a N-oxyl compound and a hypochlorite compound. During oxidation, the p11 of the aqueous mixture can be maintained at from 8.5 to 11. Cellulose products can be formed from the cellulose materials. For example, the cellulose products can be used to form a packaging material, a biomedical device or implant, a drug delivery material, a fiber, a textile material, a template for electronic components, or a separation membrane. Methods of making the cellulose product include dissolving or suspending an active ingredient in a medium comprising the cellulose material.

Disclosed are embossed, multi-ply tissue products having consumer preferred physical properties and an aesthetically pleasing appearance. The products may comprise a first embossed tissue ply and a second embossed tissue ply arranged in facing relation and defining an interior portion there between, the first ply comprising a plurality of first embossments oriented towards the interior portion of the product and the second ply comprising a plurality of second embossments oriented away from the interior portion. The products generally have improved sheet bulk, such as a sheet bulk greater than about 15 cubic centimeters per gram (cc/g), and improved softness, such as an Average TS7 less than about 12.0.

An interlayer material for a lithium-sulfur battery, and a lithium-sulfur battery, the interlayer material including electrically conductive MOF modified carbon fiber paper material between the separator and cathode accelerating electron transfer and having catalytic and barrier effect on lithium polysulfides. The paper material is prepared by: pretreatment of the paper by subjecting the carbon fiber paper to hydrophilic treatment; preparation of carbon fiber paper grown with Co.sub.3(HITP).sub.2 including: complexing Co.sup.2+ and hexaiminotriphenylene on the paper surface, and allowing the product to grow in situ; and removal of structural impurities. The carbon fiber paper provides an electrically conductive substrate ensuring high-speed electrode movement between the cathode and separator; and Co.sub.3(HITP).sub.2 grown on the carbon fiber paper provides sufficient polarity for the adsorption of lithium polysulfides, alleviating the shortcomings of the carbon material, and promotes a lithium polysulfides reaction through the catalysis of Co—N.sub.4, inhibiting the shuttle effect of the polysulfides.

An interlayer material for a lithium-sulfur battery, and a lithium-sulfur battery, the interlayer material including electrically conductive MOF modified carbon fiber paper material between the separator and cathode accelerating electron transfer and having catalytic and barrier effect on lithium polysulfides. The paper material is prepared by: pretreatment of the paper by subjecting the carbon fiber paper to hydrophilic treatment; preparation of carbon fiber paper grown with Co.sub.3(HITP).sub.2 including: complexing Co.sup.2+ and hexaiminotriphenylene on the paper surface, and allowing the product to grow in situ; and removal of structural impurities. The carbon fiber paper provides an electrically conductive substrate ensuring high-speed electrode movement between the cathode and separator; and Co.sub.3(HITP).sub.2 grown on the carbon fiber paper provides sufficient polarity for the adsorption of lithium polysulfides, alleviating the shortcomings of the carbon material, and promotes a lithium polysulfides reaction through the catalysis of Co—N.sub.4, inhibiting the shuttle effect of the polysulfides.

The present invention provides a wet-pressed, wet-laid tissue product that is soft and durable. The tissue product includes regenerated cellulose fibers providing 25% or less of the total weight of the wet-laid tissue product. The tissue product can include a DSF value of greater than 1.22. The DSF value is defined by the equation: DSF=(Durability Value/TS7 Softness value)/number of plies of the wet-pressed, wet-laid tissue product.

The present invention provides a wet-laid tissue product comprising regenerated cellulose fibers that can provide 25% or less of the total weight of the wet-laid tissue product. The regenerated cellulose fibers can have a denier of less than 0.9 and a fiber length of less than 6.0 mm. The wet-laid tissue product can provide improvements in softness at a given strength.

A textured mask comprising a film. The film can have a first substantially continuously flat surface lying in a first plane and a second surface opposite the first surface lying in a second plane substantially parallel to the first plane. The second surface is interrupted by a plurality of cavities, each of the cavities having a first depth defined by a third surface lying in a third plane substantially parallel to the first and second planes. The depth of the cavities can be at a distance of from about 0.1 mm to about 5 mm from the second plane. The textured mask is at least partially coated with an opaque masking agent. The textured mask can make a correspondingly structured three-dimensional papermaking belt, which can make correspondingly structured three-dimensional fibrous structure.

Disclosed are multi-ply tissue products comprising a non-crosslinked binder that are durable and dispersible. The products generally have a Slosh time less than 2 minutes, such as less than about 60 seconds, such as less than about 45 seconds. Surprisingly, the foregoing Slosh times are achieved despite the tissue products having relatively high cross-machine direction (CD) wet tensile strength, such as greater than about 100 g/3″. Typically, increasing wet tensile strength, particularly wet CD tensile strength, negatively effects dispersability and increases Slosh time. Despite this trend, the present invention surprisingly provides a tissue product having a relatively high degree of wet strength and good dispersability.

Provided are tissue webs, and products produced therefrom, that are generally durable, flexible and have improved cross-machine direction (CD) properties, such as CD tensile energy absorption (CD TEA), CD stretch and CD modulus. The inventive tissue products generally comprise a single tissue ply that has been prepared by through-air drying and more preferably by through-air drying without creping. Moreover, the products may be produced using a transfer fabric positioned between the forming fabric and the through-air drying fabric where the transfer fabric imparts the nascent web with a high degree of CD strain.