Effects of wood fiber esterification on properties, weatherability and biodurability of wood plastic composites

Polymer Degradation and Stability

Volumn 98, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1348-1361

  Wei, Liqing ^a   McDonald, Armando G ^a   Freitag, Camille ^b   Morrell, Jeffrey J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodurability; Fiber esterification; Photostability; Weathering; Wood plastic composites

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATED WEATHERING; BIODURABILITY; CHEMICALLY MODIFIED; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; HIGH DENSITY POLYETHYLENE(HDPE); PHOTO-STABILITY; RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTY; WOOD PLASTIC COMPOSITE;

COLORIMETRY; CONTACT ANGLE; ESTERIFICATION; ESTERS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; VOLATILE FATTY ACIDS; WEATHERING; WOOD PRODUCTS;

FIBERS;

COLORIMETRY; CONTACT ANGLE; ESTERIFICATION; ESTERS; FATTY ACIDS; FIBERS; POLYMER WOOD COMBINATIONS; WEATHERING; WOOD PRODUCTS;

EID: 84877831398     PISSN: 01413910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2013.03.027     Document Type: Article

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