Inverse Vulcanisation of canola oil as a route to recyclable chopped carbon fibre composites

As a result of crude oil desulfurisation, elemental sulfur is significant by-product the petrochemical industry with millions tonnes produced annually, and portion remains unused. The use this feedstock for generation new materials has seen increased growth, though such that utilise inverse vulcanisation have limited practicality in everyday applications due to their poor mechanical properties. Another underutilised waste product carbon fibre composites. need high performance resulted significantly amplified demand reinforced In line demand, an increase scrap, waste, offcuts also increasing proportion. Within paper combination these two resources was explored: recycled chopped incorporated into polymer derived from canola oil. aim generate composites improved physical properties, enabling widespread volume material applications. introduction 20 wt% found improve tensile strength modulus iterative generations recycling reaching maximum 909.1 kPa (+137.4%) 94.3 MPa (+160.1%) as compared initial fibre. We demonstrate components were able be repeatedly separated each other, mechanically or chemically, recombined processed