Biodegradation of high-strength and high-modulus PE–starch composite films buried in several kinds of soils

Characterization of UHMWPE/wood composites produced via dry‐blending and compression molding

“…Furthermore, UHMWPE has not been used much for composite production, but some specific applications can be found. UHMWPE composites based on starch [13] and coconut shell powder [14] can be found. Silverstein and Breitner [15] addressed the wear properties of UHMWPE composites filled with polytetrafluoroethylene and their relationship to mechanical properties, whereas Yeh et al [16] used carbon nanotubes (CNT) to take advantage of their remarkable physical characteristics.…”

Biodegradability of biodegradable mulch film : A review of the scientific literature on the biodegradability of materials used for biodegradable mulch film

“…Although (visual) disintegration or weight loss is sometimes used as a screening parameter to assess the degradation of plastic mulching film in its field of application, it cannot be used to prove its complete microbial metabolic utilisation. When a mulching film for example is composed of a blended compound or copolymers, complete disintegration can be achieved by the biodegradation of one of the components whereas other components could persist in the soil with possible harm for the environment [27,28].…”

“…Many reports can be found of blending and compounding combinations of the biodegradable polymers we discussed in the earlier sections 3.2 and 3.3 and the corresponding characterization and evaluation of resulting materials. In case soil biodegradability data of these blends are presented, these often just involve the assessment of disintegration and or weight loss during soil exposure [28,57,79,80,[108][109][110][111][112][113][114]. However, showing that the disintegration rate of, for example, a PLA material increases by blending it with another biodegradable polymer such as starch, does not prove that the complete microbial metabolic utilization of the PLA fraction (resulting in its conversion to CO2) is accelerated or actually takes place at all.…”

The dynamical viscoelasticity and tensile property of new highly filled charcoal powder/ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene composites

“…Furthermore, UHMWPE has not been used much for composite production, but some specific applications can be found. UHMWPE composites based on wood flour [1], coconut shell powder [2] and starch [3] can be found. Pang [4,5] prepared a segregated conductive polymer composite based on CNTs and ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE).…”