Accelerating the degradation of polyolefins through additives and blending

X Liu, C Gao, P Sangwan, L Yu… - Journal of Applied …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Polyolefins are popular because of their low price, useful properties, broad supply chains,
and mature processing facilities, but they do not easily degrade in the natural environment …

Biodegradation of functionalized nanocellulose

BP Frank, C Smith, ER Caudill… - Environmental …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Nanocellulose has attracted widespread interest for applications in materials science and
biomedical engineering due to its natural abundance, desirable physicochemical properties …

[HTML][HTML] Biodegradable poly (butylene succinate) composites reinforced by cotton fiber with silane coupling agent

BP Calabia, F Ninomiya, H Yagi, A Oishi, K Taguchi… - Polymers, 2013 - mdpi.com
In this study, the use of cotton fiber (CF) as a filler in poly (butylene succinate)(PBS) and the
effect of silane treatment on the mechanical properties, thermal stability, and …

Revisiting the challenges in fabricating uniform coatings with polyfunctional molecules on high surface energy materials

S Oyola-Reynoso, Z Wang, J Chen, S Çınar, B Chang… - Coatings, 2015 - mdpi.com
Modifying the chemistry of a surface has been widely used to influence interfacial properties
of a material or nature of interaction between two materials. This article provides an …

Effect of silane coupling agent and concentration on fracture toughness and water sorption behaviour of fibre-reinforced dental composites

JT Varghese, K Cho, P Farrar, L Prentice, BG Prusty - Dental Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Objectives This paper presents the effect of silane treatment of S-2 Glass fibres on the
fracture toughness and water sorption/solubility behaviour of fibre-reinforced flowable dental …

Properties of polypropylene and polypropylene/poly (ethylene-co-vinyl alcohol) blend/CNC nanocomposites

D Bagheriasl, PJ Carreau, C Dubois, B Riedl - Composites Science and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Rheological, mechanical and thermal properties of polypropylene (PP)/cellulose nanocrystal
(CNC) nanocomposites were compared with those of nanocomposites containing poly …

The transparency and mechanical properties of cellulose acetate nanocomposites using cellulose nanowhiskers as fillers

ZY Yang, WJ Wang, ZQ Shao, HD Zhu, YH Li, FJ Wang - Cellulose, 2013 - Springer
Cellulose nanowhiskers (CNWs) were chemically modified by acetylating to obtain
acetylated cellulose nanowhiskers (ACNWs) which could be well dispersed in acetone. The …

Stability and repeatability improvement of horseradish peroxidase by immobilization on amino-functionalized bacterial cellulose

B Yu, H Cheng, W Zhuang, CJ Zhu, J Wu, H Niu… - Process …, 2019 - Elsevier
Bacterial cellulose (BC) is a biodegradable material with many excellent properties for
enzyme immobilization. However, hydroxyl groups of low reactivity in glucose units cannot …

Impact of silanization on the structure, dispersion properties, and biodegradability of nanocellulose as a nanocomposite filler

BP Frank, DP Durkin, ER Caudill, L Zhu… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2018 - ACS Publications
For nanocellulose to function effectively as a nanofiller in polymers, its interfacial properties
are often modified to enhance the dispersion of nanocellulose in the polymer matrix …

Effect of compound coupling agent treatment on mechanical property and water absorption of hollow glass microspheres/epoxy composite

Z Zhu, Y Liu, G **an, Y Wang, C Wu, X Peng… - Macromolecular …, 2023 - Springer
Hollow glass microspheres (HGMs), as a reinforcing material to prepare lightweight high-
performance composites, have excellent mechanical properties. However, the composites …