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Facile Preparation of Cellulose Fiber Reinforced Polypropylene Using Hybrid Filler Method

Dried hybrid fillers comprised of silica/CNF were successfully synthesized in ethanol/water mixed solvents at room temperature without the usage of any precursor. The as-prepared fillers were incorporated with polypropylene (PP) as a polymer matrix through a twin-screw extruder. From surface morphol...

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Autores principales: Mustapha, Safarul, Lease, Jacqueline, Eksiler, Kubra, Sim, Siew Teng, Ariffin, Hidayah, Andou, Yoshito
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9028520/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35458380
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym14081630
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author Mustapha, Safarul
Lease, Jacqueline
Eksiler, Kubra
Sim, Siew Teng
Ariffin, Hidayah
Andou, Yoshito
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Lease, Jacqueline
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Sim, Siew Teng
Ariffin, Hidayah
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description Dried hybrid fillers comprised of silica/CNF were successfully synthesized in ethanol/water mixed solvents at room temperature without the usage of any precursor. The as-prepared fillers were incorporated with polypropylene (PP) as a polymer matrix through a twin-screw extruder. From surface morphology analysis, the agglomeration of the silica/CNF hybrid fillers was prevented in the PP matrix and they exhibited moderate transparency, around 17.9% and 44.6% T at 660 nm. Further, the chemical structures of the polymer composites were identified by Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) analysis. According to thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), the insertion of silica as a co-filler to the PP matrix resulted in an increase in its degradation onset temperature and also thermal stability. In addition, the mechanical properties of the PP composites also increased after the blending process with the hybrid fillers. Overall, sample PP-SS/CNF exhibited the highest tensile strength, which was 36.8 MPa, or around 73.55% compared to the pristine PP. The improvements in tensile strength were attributed to good dispersion and enhanced efficiency of the stress transfer mechanism between the silica and the cellulose within the PP matrix. However, elongation of the sample was reduced sharply due to the stiffening effect of the filler.
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spelling pubmed-90285202022-04-23 Facile Preparation of Cellulose Fiber Reinforced Polypropylene Using Hybrid Filler Method Mustapha, Safarul Lease, Jacqueline Eksiler, Kubra Sim, Siew Teng Ariffin, Hidayah Andou, Yoshito Polymers (Basel) Article Dried hybrid fillers comprised of silica/CNF were successfully synthesized in ethanol/water mixed solvents at room temperature without the usage of any precursor. The as-prepared fillers were incorporated with polypropylene (PP) as a polymer matrix through a twin-screw extruder. From surface morphology analysis, the agglomeration of the silica/CNF hybrid fillers was prevented in the PP matrix and they exhibited moderate transparency, around 17.9% and 44.6% T at 660 nm. Further, the chemical structures of the polymer composites were identified by Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) analysis. According to thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), the insertion of silica as a co-filler to the PP matrix resulted in an increase in its degradation onset temperature and also thermal stability. In addition, the mechanical properties of the PP composites also increased after the blending process with the hybrid fillers. Overall, sample PP-SS/CNF exhibited the highest tensile strength, which was 36.8 MPa, or around 73.55% compared to the pristine PP. The improvements in tensile strength were attributed to good dispersion and enhanced efficiency of the stress transfer mechanism between the silica and the cellulose within the PP matrix. However, elongation of the sample was reduced sharply due to the stiffening effect of the filler. MDPI 2022-04-18 /pmc/articles/PMC9028520/ /pubmed/35458380 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym14081630 Text en © 2022 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/).
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35458380
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym14081630
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