PAPERmaking! FROM THE PUBLISHERS OF PAPER TECHNOLOGY Volume 4, Number 1, 2018
Rethinking the Determination of Wet Strength of Paper Zicheng Chen (a,b), Lanhe Zhang (a), and Zhibin He (b) (a) School of Chemical Engineering, Northeast Electric Power University, Jilin, Jilin Province 132012 P. R. China; (b) Department of Chemical Engineering, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB E3B 5A3, Canada; Corresponding author: zhanglanhe@163.com The wet strength of paper is an important physical property, especially for household paper, e.g., paper towels, as well as for some functional paper grades. However, in the literature, various conditions of immersing the samples in water before testing have been reported, resulting in differences in their extent of saturation and inconsistency in the testing results. In this editorial, the methods of examination for both the temporary and permanent wet strength are discussed, and a more reasonable method is proposed. BioResources 13(2), 2184-2186.
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