Abstract

• ced throughout the world. Bagasse is a waste product mainly deriving from sugar cane production. Thus, sugar cane bagasse is a big problem of their production. As a result, convertion of bagasse to valuable products like cellulose hydrogel films is important issues to be concerned. In the present work, sugar cane bagasse was used as a cellulose resource which was chemically treated using sulphuric acid (H2SO4) and sodium hydroxide (NaOH).When this pretreated sample was bleached by sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl), treated bagasse cellulose fiber was obtained. FTIR, SEM and XRD measurements were used to characterize the properties of raw and treated fiber samples. Following this, solvent exchange processes were performed by use of water, ethanol and Dimethylacetamide (DMAc) respectively. Using (DMAc/LiCl) system was possible to obtain cellulose hydrogel solution and cellulose hydrogel film was prepared by phase inverse method without cross linker. The resultant hydrogel film was found to be transparent and flexible.