Title: Novel Bio-Based Epoxies and their Performance in Reinforced Composites

Authors: Yongning Liu, Wumin Yu, Bing Wang and Chris Adair

DOI: 10.33599/nasampe/c.22.0156

Abstract: New Bio-Based Epoxies and Performance

Yongning Liu, Ph.D.
Ingevity
5255 Virginia Avenue
North Charleston, SC 29406

ABSTRACT

Epoxy resins are widely used in the manufacture for a wide range of applications, such as adhesives, coatings, composites and moldings. However, most conventional epoxy resins are derived from petroleum sources. With the desire to move toward more environmentally friendly and sustainable “green” feedstocks, use of bio-based feedstocks to develop bio-based epoxy resins has attracted increasing attention.

Rosin and distilled tall oils (DTO) are bio-based refinery products obtained as co-product in Kraft wood pulping. In this work, a series of new bio-based epoxy resins were developed from rosin and DTO. These resins were cured with amine hardeners or anhydrides to evaluate their performance including cure properties (gel time, cure time, exothermic peak temperature at room and elevated temperatures), physical and thermal properties (tensile strength, tensile modulus, tensile elongation, Tg from dynamic mechanical analysis), and fiber reinforced composites (fiber content, flexure strength and modulus, short beam shear strength). The key features of the bio-based epoxies include outstanding glass adhesion, enhanced hydrophobicity and less water absorption, improved thermal color stability, and high tensile strength and modulus. The study shows that well balanced properties could be achieved with incorporating these bio-based epoxy resins

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Conference: CAMX 2022

Publication Date: 2022/10/17

SKU: TP22-0000000156

Pages: 12

Price: $24.00