Calcium sulfate as high-performance filler for polylactide (PLA) or how to recycle gypsum as by-product of lactic acid fermentation process

Composite Interfaces

Volumn 16, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 65-84

  Murariu, Marius ^a   Da Silva Ferreira, Amália ^a   Bonnaud, Leila ^a   Dubois, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Calcium sulfate anhydrite; Composites; Poly(lactic acid); Stearates; Stearic acid

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM SULFATE; CALCIUM SULFATE ANHYDRITE; CALCIUM SULFATE HEMIHYDRATE; COATING AGENTS; COLD CRYSTALLIZATION; COMPOSITES; FILLER DISPERSION; FRACTURED SURFACES; GLOBAL PRICES; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPOSITES; IMPACT PROPERTY; INTERFACIAL PROPERTY; LACTIC ACID FERMENTATION; MELT BLENDING; NEW APPROACHES; POLY(LACTIC ACID); POLYLACTIDE; PROCESSABLE; SEM; STEARATE SALTS; STEARATES; THERMAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; THERMAL STABILITY; THERMAL TREATMENT; WETTING CHARACTERISTICS; YOUNG'S MODULUS;

BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING; BLENDING; BODY FLUIDS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM ALLOYS; FERMENTATION; GYPSUM; HEAT TREATMENT; LACTIC ACID; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; ORGANIC ACIDS; POLYMER MELTS; PROCESS CONTROL; SALTS; SIMULATED ANNEALING; STEARIC ACID; SULFATE MINERALS; SURFACE TREATMENT;

FILLERS;

EID: 67149092190     PISSN: 09276440     EISSN: 15685543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156855409X402867     Document Type: Article

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