Despite the fact that wood polymer composites are interesting materials for many different reasons, they are quite difficult to shape through standard polymer processing techniques …
J Kelly-Walley, Z Ortega, M McCourt, B Millar, L Suárez… - Materials, 2023 - mdpi.com
The incorporation of materials different from the polymer within the rotational molding process usually results in lowered mechanical properties, where impact strength is of …
Pultrusion is a highly efficient composite manufacturing process. To accurately describe pultrusion, an appropriate model of resin cure kinetics is required. In this study, we …
RA Ramli - Materials Today Sustainability, 2024 - Elsevier
Wood plastic composite (WPC) is a composite material that consists of a matrix phase of plastic and wood as its reinforcement. The transition from virgin plastic (VP) to recycled …
Waste polyethylene wax is thermally treated using a rotary evaporator to reduce unwanted components. Fourier transform infrared proves the absence of undesirable material. Wax is …
G Shulga, J Rizhikovs, B Neiberte, A Verovkins… - Forests, 2023 - mdpi.com
In the last two decades, there has been increased interest in research focused on developing innovative polymer composite materials for food packaging, obtained by …
The paper deals with the application of abrasive water-jet cutting to composite material containing natural reinforcement—wood plastic composite. The specimens were cut through …
Here we report a fast functionalization method of PE using ozone oxidization to improve the interfacial adhesion between wood fiber (WF) and oxidized PE (OPE) for preparing wood …
Y Dong, F Lin, T Zhao, M Wang, D Ning, X Hao… - Polymers, 2024 - mdpi.com
Zinc stearate (Znst) was physically blended with the sodium 4-[(4 chlorobenzoyl) amino] benzoate (SCAB) to obtain the SCAB-Znst composite nucleating agent. Znst was used to …