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Effect of Fique Fibers in the Behavior of a New Biobased Composite from Renewable Mopa-Mopa Resin

A fully biobased composite was developed using a natural resin from the Elaeagia Pastoensis Mora plant, known as Mopa-Mopa reinforced with fique fibers. Resin extraction was through solvent processing reaching an efficient extraction process of 92% and obtaining a material that acted as a matrix wit...

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Autores principales: Mina Hernandez, José Herminsul, Toro Perea, Edward Fernando, Caicedo Mejía, Katherine, Meneses Jacobo, Claudia Alejandra
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Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7408400/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32708528
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym12071573
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author Mina Hernandez, José Herminsul
Toro Perea, Edward Fernando
Caicedo Mejía, Katherine
Meneses Jacobo, Claudia Alejandra
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Toro Perea, Edward Fernando
Caicedo Mejía, Katherine
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description A fully biobased composite was developed using a natural resin from the Elaeagia Pastoensis Mora plant, known as Mopa-Mopa reinforced with fique fibers. Resin extraction was through solvent processing reaching an efficient extraction process of 92% and obtaining a material that acted as a matrix without using any supplementary chemical modifications as it occurs with most of the biobased resins. This material was processed by the conventional transform method (hot compression molding) to form the plates from which the test specimens were extracted. From physicochemical and mechanical characterization, it was found that the resin had obtained a tensile strength of 15 MPa that increased to values of 30 MPa with the addition of 20% of the fibers with alkalization treatment. This behavior indicated a favorable condition of the fiber-matrix interface in the material. Similarly, the evaluation of the moisture adsorption in the components of the composite demonstrated that such adsorption was mainly promoted by the presence of the fibers and had a negative effect on a plasticization phenomenon from humidity that reduced the mechanical properties for all the controlled humidities (47%, 77% and 97%). Finally, due to its physicochemical and mechanical behavior, this new biobased composite is capable of being used in applications such as wood–plastic (WPCs) to replace plastic and/or natural wood products that are widely used today.
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spelling pubmed-74084002020-08-13 Effect of Fique Fibers in the Behavior of a New Biobased Composite from Renewable Mopa-Mopa Resin Mina Hernandez, José Herminsul Toro Perea, Edward Fernando Caicedo Mejía, Katherine Meneses Jacobo, Claudia Alejandra Polymers (Basel) Article A fully biobased composite was developed using a natural resin from the Elaeagia Pastoensis Mora plant, known as Mopa-Mopa reinforced with fique fibers. Resin extraction was through solvent processing reaching an efficient extraction process of 92% and obtaining a material that acted as a matrix without using any supplementary chemical modifications as it occurs with most of the biobased resins. This material was processed by the conventional transform method (hot compression molding) to form the plates from which the test specimens were extracted. From physicochemical and mechanical characterization, it was found that the resin had obtained a tensile strength of 15 MPa that increased to values of 30 MPa with the addition of 20% of the fibers with alkalization treatment. This behavior indicated a favorable condition of the fiber-matrix interface in the material. Similarly, the evaluation of the moisture adsorption in the components of the composite demonstrated that such adsorption was mainly promoted by the presence of the fibers and had a negative effect on a plasticization phenomenon from humidity that reduced the mechanical properties for all the controlled humidities (47%, 77% and 97%). Finally, due to its physicochemical and mechanical behavior, this new biobased composite is capable of being used in applications such as wood–plastic (WPCs) to replace plastic and/or natural wood products that are widely used today. MDPI 2020-07-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7408400/ /pubmed/32708528 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym12071573 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Toro Perea, Edward Fernando
Caicedo Mejía, Katherine
Meneses Jacobo, Claudia Alejandra
Effect of Fique Fibers in the Behavior of a New Biobased Composite from Renewable Mopa-Mopa Resin
title Effect of Fique Fibers in the Behavior of a New Biobased Composite from Renewable Mopa-Mopa Resin
title_full Effect of Fique Fibers in the Behavior of a New Biobased Composite from Renewable Mopa-Mopa Resin
title_fullStr Effect of Fique Fibers in the Behavior of a New Biobased Composite from Renewable Mopa-Mopa Resin
title_full_unstemmed Effect of Fique Fibers in the Behavior of a New Biobased Composite from Renewable Mopa-Mopa Resin
title_short Effect of Fique Fibers in the Behavior of a New Biobased Composite from Renewable Mopa-Mopa Resin
title_sort effect of fique fibers in the behavior of a new biobased composite from renewable mopa-mopa resin
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7408400/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32708528
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym12071573
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