From waste to functional additive: Toughening epoxy resin with lignin

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 5810-5817

  Liu, Wanshuang ^a   Zhou, Rui ^a   Goh, Hwee Li Sally ^a   Huang, Shu ^a   Lu, Xuehong ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

epoxy resin; lignin; polymer additive; toughening

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; EPOXY RESINS; PAPER AND PULP INDUSTRY; POLYMERS; RESINS; TENSILE STRENGTH; TOUGHENING;

ANHYDRIDE-CURED EPOXY; CRITICAL STRAIN ENERGY RELEASE RATES; CRITICAL STRESS INTENSITY FACTOR; FUNCTIONAL ADDITIVES; POLYMER ADDITIVE; PULP AND PAPER INDUSTRY; THERMOSET POLYMERS; TOUGHENING AGENTS;

LIGNIN;

EID: 84899555844     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am500642n     Document Type: Article

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