“…For example, it can be used to fill and enhance rubber (Ushmarin and Kol'tsov, 2000;Setua et al, 2000), used as macromonomer in the preparation of polyurethane (Sarkar and Adhikari, 2001), epoxy resin (Zhao et al, 2001) and phenolic resin (Sarkar and Adhikari, 2000), blended with vinylic copolymer (Feldman et al, 2001), and used to prepare biodegradable polymers (Nitz et al, 2001). However, reports on study of lignin blends with PVC are few (Feldman and Banu, 1997;Banu et al, 2006;Feldman et al, 1996Feldman et al, , 2003Oliveira and Glasser, 1994;Raghi et al, 2000), and most of the PVC-lignin blends have the worse mechanical properties comparing with PVC due to the poor compatibility between them.…”