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Preparation of High Density Polyethylene/Waste Polyurethane Blends Compatibilized With Polyethylene-Graft-Maleic Anhydride by Radiation

Preparation of High Density Polyethylene/Waste Polyurethane Blends Compatibilized With Polyethylene-Graft-Maleic Anhydride by Radiation

Jong-Seok Park, Youn-Mook Lim, Young-Chang Nho

Materials (Basel). 2015 Apr 8;8(4):1626-1635.

PMID: 28788022

Abstract:

Polyurethane (PU) is a very popular polymer that is used in a variety of applications due to its good mechanical, thermal, and chemical properties. However, PU recycling has received significant attention due to environmental issues. In this study, we developed a recycling method for waste PU that utilizes the radiation grafting technique. Grafting of waste PU was carried out using a radiation technique with polyethylene-graft-maleic anhydride (PE-g-MA). The PE-g-MA-grafted PU/high density polyethylene (HDPE) composite was prepared by melt-blending at various concentrations (0-10 phr) of PE-g-MA-grafted PU. The composites were characterized using fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), and their surface morphology and thermal/mechanical properties are reported. For 1 phr PU, the PU could be easily introduced to the HDPE during the melt processing in the blender after the radiation-induced grafting of PU with PE-g-MA. PE-g-MA was easily reacted with PU according to the increasing radiation dose and was located at the interface between the PU and the HDPE during the melt processing in the blender, which improved the interfacial interactions and the mechanical properties of the resultant composites. However, the elongation at break for a PU content >2 phr was drastically decreased.

Chemicals Related in the Paper:

Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
AP9006262-B	Polyethylene-graft-maleic anhydride		9006-26-2	Price

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