Characteristics and discrimination of five types of wood-plastic composites by FTIR spectroscopy combined with principal component analysis

Holzforschung

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 699-704

  Lee, Chia Huang ^a   Wu, Tung Lin ^a   Chen, Yong Long ^a   Wu, Jyh Horng ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

attenuated total reflection Fourier transform infrared (ATR FTIR); distribution profile; principal component analysis; recycled plastic; wood plastic composites

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION PROFILE; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; RECYCLED PLASTICS; WOOD-PLASTIC COMPOSITES;

DISPERSIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; PLASTICS; POLYSTYRENES; RECYCLING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WOOD PRODUCTS;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

DISPERSIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HIGH DENSITY POLYETHYLENE; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LOW DENSITY POLYETHYLENE; POLYMER WOOD COMBINATIONS; POLYSTYRENE; RECYCLED CONTENT; REFLECTION;

EID: 77958066362     PISSN: 00183830     EISSN: 1437434X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/HF.2010.104     Document Type: Article

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