Cargando…

Fire Retardancy, Water Absorption, and Viscoelasticity of Borated Wood—Polycarbonate Biocomposites

Demand for high-performance biocomposites is increasing due to their ease of processing, low environmental impact, and in-service performance. This study investigated the effect of boric acid modification of wood flour on polycarbonate (PC) wood composites’ thermal stability, fire retardancy, water...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Zhang, Jingfa, Koubaa, Ahmed, Xing, Dan, Godard, François, Li, Peng, Tao, Yubo, Wang, Xiang-Ming, Wang, Haigang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8309212/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34300991
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym13142234
_version_ 1783728469361819648
author Zhang, Jingfa
Koubaa, Ahmed
Xing, Dan
Godard, François
Li, Peng
Tao, Yubo
Wang, Xiang-Ming
Wang, Haigang
author_facet Zhang, Jingfa
Koubaa, Ahmed
Xing, Dan
Godard, François
Li, Peng
Tao, Yubo
Wang, Xiang-Ming
Wang, Haigang
author_sort Zhang, Jingfa
collection PubMed
description Demand for high-performance biocomposites is increasing due to their ease of processing, low environmental impact, and in-service performance. This study investigated the effect of boric acid modification of wood flour on polycarbonate (PC) wood composites’ thermal stability, fire retardancy, water absorption, and creep behavior. The composites’ fire retardancy increased with increasing wood flour content, and their char residue increased by 102.3% compared to that of pure PC. However, the water absorption of the resulting composites increased due to the hydroxyl groups of the wood flour. Wood flour also improved the composites’ anti-creep properties. The excellent fire retardancy and anti-creep properties of wood–PC composites expand their use in the construction sector.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-8309212
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2021
publisher MDPI
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-83092122021-07-25 Fire Retardancy, Water Absorption, and Viscoelasticity of Borated Wood—Polycarbonate Biocomposites Zhang, Jingfa Koubaa, Ahmed Xing, Dan Godard, François Li, Peng Tao, Yubo Wang, Xiang-Ming Wang, Haigang Polymers (Basel) Article Demand for high-performance biocomposites is increasing due to their ease of processing, low environmental impact, and in-service performance. This study investigated the effect of boric acid modification of wood flour on polycarbonate (PC) wood composites’ thermal stability, fire retardancy, water absorption, and creep behavior. The composites’ fire retardancy increased with increasing wood flour content, and their char residue increased by 102.3% compared to that of pure PC. However, the water absorption of the resulting composites increased due to the hydroxyl groups of the wood flour. Wood flour also improved the composites’ anti-creep properties. The excellent fire retardancy and anti-creep properties of wood–PC composites expand their use in the construction sector. MDPI 2021-07-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8309212/ /pubmed/34300991 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym13142234 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
spellingShingle Article
Zhang, Jingfa
Koubaa, Ahmed
Xing, Dan
Godard, François
Li, Peng
Tao, Yubo
Wang, Xiang-Ming
Wang, Haigang
Fire Retardancy, Water Absorption, and Viscoelasticity of Borated Wood—Polycarbonate Biocomposites
title Fire Retardancy, Water Absorption, and Viscoelasticity of Borated Wood—Polycarbonate Biocomposites
title_full Fire Retardancy, Water Absorption, and Viscoelasticity of Borated Wood—Polycarbonate Biocomposites
title_fullStr Fire Retardancy, Water Absorption, and Viscoelasticity of Borated Wood—Polycarbonate Biocomposites
title_full_unstemmed Fire Retardancy, Water Absorption, and Viscoelasticity of Borated Wood—Polycarbonate Biocomposites
title_short Fire Retardancy, Water Absorption, and Viscoelasticity of Borated Wood—Polycarbonate Biocomposites
title_sort fire retardancy, water absorption, and viscoelasticity of borated wood—polycarbonate biocomposites
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8309212/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34300991
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym13142234
work_keys_str_mv AT zhangjingfa fireretardancywaterabsorptionandviscoelasticityofboratedwoodpolycarbonatebiocomposites
AT koubaaahmed fireretardancywaterabsorptionandviscoelasticityofboratedwoodpolycarbonatebiocomposites
AT xingdan fireretardancywaterabsorptionandviscoelasticityofboratedwoodpolycarbonatebiocomposites
AT godardfrancois fireretardancywaterabsorptionandviscoelasticityofboratedwoodpolycarbonatebiocomposites
AT lipeng fireretardancywaterabsorptionandviscoelasticityofboratedwoodpolycarbonatebiocomposites
AT taoyubo fireretardancywaterabsorptionandviscoelasticityofboratedwoodpolycarbonatebiocomposites
AT wangxiangming fireretardancywaterabsorptionandviscoelasticityofboratedwoodpolycarbonatebiocomposites
AT wanghaigang fireretardancywaterabsorptionandviscoelasticityofboratedwoodpolycarbonatebiocomposites