“Vegetable Oil Based-Polymers Reinforced With Wood Flour”

M. A. MOSIEWICKI; U. CASADO; N. E. MARCOVICH; M. I. ARANGUREN

MOLECULAR CRYSTALS AND LIQUID CRYSTALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, SECTION A

Taylor & Francis Group, LLC

Año: 2008

1058-725X

Liquid polymer precursors were synthesized from vegetable oils to be utilized in the preparation oil based-resins to be later reinforced with a filler also obtained from natural sources. In this work, an unsaturated oil, tung oil, produced in the region was selected as raw material. The vegetable oil was chemically functionalized to obtain a polyol to be further used in polyurethane formulations. Different analysis techniques were used to investigate the hydroxyl content in the modified oil. Oil based composites containing pine wood flour as filler were prepared and mechani- cally tested.