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THERMAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF WOOD FLOUR-POLYSTYRENE BLENDS FROM POSTCONSUMER PLASTIC WASTE

dc.creatorXIMENA ALEJANDRA BUSTOS PALACIOS
dc.creatorJUSTO HIPÓLITO LISPERGUER MUÑOZ
dc.date2011
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-10T14:52:24Z
dc.date.available2025-01-10T14:52:24Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractPOLYSTYRENE (PS) FROM PACKING MATERIALS AND PLASTIC CUPS WAS REINFORCED WITH 30 AND 50% WOOD FLOUR THROUGH A BLENDING PROCESS WITH AND WITHOUT A COMMERCIAL COMPATIBILIZING AGENT. THE PROCESSABILITY OF THE PURE RECYCLED POLYSTYRENE (RPS) AND WOOD?RPS COMPOSITES WAS STUDIED IN TERMS OF THE TORQUE OF THE MIXING PROCESS; THIS WAS THEN COMPARED WITH THAT OF A COMMERCIAL VIRGIN MULTIPURPOSE PS. THE PHYSICAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES WERE COMPARED WITH THOSE OF THE VIRGIN PS REINFORCED WITH 30 AND 50% WOOD FLOUR. THE RESULTS SHOW THAT THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF THE PURE AND REINFORCED RPS DID NOT DECREASE WITH RESPECT TO THE VIRGIN PS, AND IN TERMS OF THE IMPACT STRENGTH, THE RPS WAS SUPERIOR TO THE VIRGIN PLASTIC. THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES WERE NOT AFFECTED BY THE COMMERCIAL COMPATIBILIZING AGENT, BUT THE TORQUE OF THE BLENDS WAS SIGNIFICANTLY LOWER WITH THE COMPATIBILIZER. DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY (DSC) AND DYNAMIC MECHANICAL ANALYSIS WERE USED TO STUDY THE GLASS-TRANSITION TEMPERATURE (TG) OF BOTH THE PURE VIRGIN PS AND PURE RPS AND THE WOOD FLOUR?PS COMPOSITES. THE TG VALUES OF THE RPS AND WOOD?RPS COMPOSITES WERE HIGHER THAN THOSE OF THE VIRGIN PS AND WOOD?VIRGIN PS COMPOSITES. THE USE OF RPS INCREASED THE STIFFNESS AND FLEXURAL MODULUS OF THE COMPOSITES. THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS REVEALED THAT THE THERMAL STABILITY OF RPS AND ITS COMPOSITES WAS SLIGHTLY GREATER THAN THAT OF THE VIRGIN PS AND ITS COMPOSITES.
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dc.identifier.doi10.1002/app.32638
dc.identifier.issn1097-4628
dc.identifier.issn0021-8995
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.ubiobio.cl/handle/123456789/9344
dc.languagespa
dc.publisherJOURNAL OF APPLIED POLYMER SCIENCE
dc.relation.uri10.1002/app.32638
dc.rightsPUBLICADA
dc.titleTHERMAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF WOOD FLOUR-POLYSTYRENE BLENDS FROM POSTCONSUMER PLASTIC WASTE
dc.typeARTÍCULO
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ubb.EstadoPUBLICADA
ubb.Otra ReparticionPROGRAMA CIPA: CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES DE POLIMEROS AVANZADOS
ubb.Otra ReparticionDEPARTAMENTO DE QUIMICA
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