Preparation and Properties of Propylene Glycol Plasticized Wheat Protein Isolate Novel Green Films

Mechanical and Water Intake Properties of Banana-Carbon Hybrid Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites

“…Over the past two decades, plant fibers have been receiving considerable attention as substitutes for synthetic fiber reinforcements. Unlike the traditional synthetic fibers like glass and carbon the plant fibers are able to impart certain benefits to the composites such as low density, high stiffness, low cost, renewability, biodegradability, environmentallyfriendly and high degree of flexibility during processing [2][3][4][5][6][7][8] . The properties of the natural fiber composites are strongly dependent on the fiber properties as well as on the structural parameters such as fiber diameter, length, distribution, orientation, volume fraction of the fibers and layering arrangement in composites.…”

Effect of different plasticisers on the mechanical and barrier properties of extruded cast PHBV films

“…Therefore in this study an external additivation by plasticisers of different molecular weights was performed and the relative influence of these plasticisers on the structural (melting temperature, crystallinity), mechanical (Young's Modulus, tensile strength, elongation at break) and barrier (water vapour and oxygen permeability) properties of PHBV was analysed. For this purpose the plasticiser, commonly known in literature, propylene glycol (PG) [23,24], glycerol (G) [25,26], triethyl citrate (TEC) [27,28], castor oil (CO) [29], epoxidised soybean oil (ESO) [28,30] and polyethylene glycol (PEG) [31,32] were applied. PG, G, and TEC are low molecular weight substances in the range between 76 and 276 g mol À1 while CO, ESO and PEG are to be found in the range from 933 to 1000 g mol À1 .…”

Structure and property of biodegradable soy protein isolate/PBAT blends

“…The world is suffered from the environmental pollution caused by the petroleum based non-degradable plastics (Jagadeesh et al, 2013;Tian et al, 2014). Developing and using biodegradable plastics are an effective way to solve the problem (Wang et al, 2015).…”