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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POLYMER ANALYSIS AND CHARACTERIZATION
Volume 20, Issue 4, Pages 298-306Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/1023666X.2015.1016322
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Mechanical properties; Montmorillonite clays; Curing kinetics; Acrylated epoxidized castor oil
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- Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals, Government of India
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Renewable resource-based epoxidized castor oil (ECO) was synthesized and used as a prime material to develop acrylated epoxidized castor oil (AECO) networks. AECO nanocomposites were prepared by the sol-gel method from organo-modified montmorillonite (OMMT) clay and silane. It was found that the AECO/1wt.% OMMT system increased in tensile strength from 28 to 37MPa and flexural strength from 54 to 63MPa as compared with the AECO system. The non-isothermal cure kinetics of the bio-based systems was studied using differential scanning calorimetry. The activation energy of the AECO/OMMT system obtained from Kissinger and Flynn-Wall-Ozawa models is lower than that of AECO system.
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