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POLYMERS
Volume 15, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/polym15040820
Keywords
biopolymer; tomato fiber; morphological analysis; mechanical properties; SEM
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This study focuses on the use of tomato by-product biomass from industrial plants as reinforcement for new degradable and biobased thermoplastic materials. The results show that the tomato by-product-reinforced materials have mechanical performance comparable to existing formulations. Depending on the targeted application, a wide range of biobased and/or degradable products can be designed.
This study focuses on the use of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) by-product biomass from industrial plants as reinforcement for designing a range of new degradable and biobased thermoplastic materials. As a novel technique, this fully circular approach enables a promising up-cycling of tomato wastes. After an in-depth morphological study of the degree of reinforcement through SEM and dynamic analysis, mechanical characterization was carried out. Our mechanical results demonstrate that this circular approach is of interest for composite applications. Despite their moderate aspect ratio values (between 1.5 and 2), the tomato by-product-reinforced materials can mechanically compete with existing formulations; PBS-Tomato fiber, for example, exhibits mechanical performance very close to that of PP-flax, especially regarding strength (+11%) and elongation at break (+6%). According to the matrix and particle morphology, a large range of products-biobased and/or degradable, depending on the targeted application-can be designed from tomato cultivation by-products.
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