Biobased monomers and green processes are key to producing sustainable materials. Car-danol, an aromatic compound obtained from cashew nut shells, may be conveniently functionalized, e.g., with epoxy or (meth)acrylate groups, to replace petroleum-based monomers. Photoinduced polymerization is recognized as a sustainable process, less energy intensive than thermal curing; however, cardanol-based UV-cured polymers have relatively low thermomechanical properties, making them mostly suitable as reactive diluents or in non-structural applications such as coatings. It is therefore convenient to combine them with biobased reinforcements, such as microfibrillated cellulose (MFC), to obtain composites with good mechanical properties. In this work a cardanol-based methacrylate monomer was photopolymerized in the presence of MFC to yield self-standing, flexible, and relatively transparent films with high thermal stability. The polymerization process was completed within few minutes even in the presence of filler, and the cellulosic filler was not affected by the photopolymerization process.
Biobased Composites by Photoinduced Polymerization of Cardanol Methacrylate with Microfibrillated Cellulose / Vitale, A.; Molina-Gutiérrez, S.; Jennifer Li, W. S.; Caillol, S.; Ladmiral, V.; Lacroix-Desmazes, P.; Dalle Vacche, S.. - In: MATERIALS. - ISSN 1996-1944. - ELETTRONICO. - 15:1(2022), p. 339. [10.3390/ma15010339]
Titolo: | Biobased Composites by Photoinduced Polymerization of Cardanol Methacrylate with Microfibrillated Cellulose | |
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Data di pubblicazione: | 2022 | |
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Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma15010339 | |
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